The maid served Mo Ran to change into her bedclothes, and then she returned to the main house and asked Biluo to take out the box that had been engraved with words from Duobao Pavilion.

Her fingers gently rubbed the two lines of words at the bottom of the box, and her mouth kept repeating, "The east rises and the west falls, and the flowers fall silently." ”

At this moment, she still felt that the words that did not indicate any source in this line were particularly abrupt, as if she was describing a certain scene, and Mo Ran suddenly remembered a sunrise flower in Qin Huairuo's courtyard that had already bloomed......

Late at night, the lights of the West Garden had already been extinguished with the brighter and brighter stars in the sky, Mo Ran got up in his cloak and quietly pushed the door out.

Holding a candlestick, along with the bluestone staircase, the figure gradually disappeared into darkness.

Pushing open the bamboo door entwined with hedges, Mo Ran turned around and looked behind him again, and closed the bamboo door again after making sure that there was no one.

Next to the bamboo gate is a decadent and overgrown sunrise flower field, in the past so many years there has been no upright bouquet, the only remaining flower stems have already fallen diagonally in the mud, no one takes care of it, this green space has long been occupied by bleak yellow weeds, it is impossible to distinguish which place is the root system of the sunrise flower, which place is the weed.

Looking at the small area, Mo Ran sighed, if the jade wrench was really hidden here, then she would not be able to turn over the entire land, and such a movement would definitely be discovered by Su Yingzhi.

Mo Ran stood hesitantly in front of the wasteland, and was carefully recalling those two sentences, if "flowers fall silently" refers to this withered sunrise flower land, then what does "rising east and falling west" refer to?

Through the dim candlestick, Moran looked around, but as far as the eye could see, there was endless darkness, and Moran looked up at the starry sky.

Rising in the East and Falling in the West?

Mo Ran suddenly thought of the golden crow in the daytime, she was like a clear mind, and her heart secretly wondered, isn't the golden crow in the sky that she is talking about?

The rising east must be the rising sun that looms on the mountain when the sky is slightly bright, and the setting in the west is the end of the day, and the sunset that is about to disappear into the mountain.

Could it be that she can only find the wrench at a certain hour, Mo Ran just saw the blue sky, and in an instant she was covered by dark clouds, she squatted in front of the wasteland quite distressedly, and at this time, the jade pendant with a plum heart hollowed out by her neck with a thin thread was dangling in front of her white collarbone from time to time as she squatted down.

Mo Ran pinched the jade pendant, and remembered that the shape of this jade pendant was a heartless plum blossom, could it ......

The next day, Liu Ying and Biluo stood in front of the empty bed with a basin for washing their faces and some food, looking at each other, so confused, and were thinking about where their young lady had gone, when they heard movement at the door.

The neatly dressed Mo Ran had a smile on her face and seemed to be in a good mood, and she was walking in from the courtyard, still holding an ink-colored box in her hand.

Two hours ago, when the sky was slightly bright, Mo Ran got up from the collapse, put on her dress and went to the deserted courtyard in the northeast corner, she took the plum blossom jade pendant with a hollow center, and aimed at the golden crow that was still hidden in the clouds in the distance.

The golden crow slowly rose, the surrounding environment gradually brightened, and a ray of light passed through the center of the jade pendant, shooting straight into the wasteland beside her.

A small piece of light suddenly appeared in this fashionable and dim mud field, Mo Ran found a branch and inserted it in the position of the light, and picked up a hoe from the house that Qin Huairuo used to take care of flowers and plants before his death, and directly dug up the piece of land, and after digging for a long time, she almost gave up, so she finally came across a hard object, Mo Ran dug out the hard object with her bare hands, it was an ink-colored box, and when she opened the box, it was a jade wrench finger packed in a cloth bag.

Then she refilled the soil, put the hoe back in its place, and looked around to make sure that it was the same as the courtyard she had seen for the first time, and then returned to Xiyuan with confidence.

Liu Yingbi saw that Mo Ran had mud stains on her hands, and some stains on her white dress, so she asked worriedly, "Miss, where have you been?" Why are you still making such a mess. ”

Mo Ran smiled indifferently and scratched his face with his hand, leaving a mud stain on his fair face, "I'm going to look for my father's relics." ”

Liu Yingbiluo didn't ask again when she knew Mo Ran's life experience, waiting for her to wash her face and change her dirty dress.

Last night she had hardly slept all night, and Mo Ran fell asleep on the bed again, and when she woke up, it was noon, and she remembered the letter she had sent yesterday, so she got up and freshened up again.

Mo Ran found a remote box on the second floor of Guangjuxuan, and sat down to wait for Ruan Ningwei, she came half an hour early, so she sat by the window, Xiao Er sent a pot of good tea, and sent a few pastries.

Mo Ran took a sip of tea, blowing a cool breeze, looking at the endless flow of people downstairs, his mind drifted to somewhere, and when there was a small sound of talking at the door, Mo Ran came back to his senses.

There was a knock on the door, and Mo Ran sat upright, "Please come in." ”

Ruan Ningwei was wearing a yellow embroidered makeup skirt, covered with a soft wool brocade cloak, her small face was slightly flushed because of the wind blowing when she came, she and Mo Ran stood at the opposite corner across the table of the Eight Immortals, Ruan Ning nodded at her slightly, "Miss Su." ”

She had heard that the beauty of the young woman in Sufu was comparable to that of the Nine Heavens Fairy, and she thought that it was so exaggerated, but when she saw her today, she couldn't help but blush.

Mo Ran smiled at her and stretched out his hand, "Miss Ruan, please take a seat." ”

The two have never met seriously before, although Mo Ran has heard of Ruan Ningwei in his previous life, but he has long lost any impression, he only saw a figure in Baihuayuan that day, and when they met today, she looked at the woman carefully, only to feel that although she was not outstanding in appearance, she was only delicate, but she was delicate and quiet, and her speech was gentle and soft like a spring breeze and drizzle, moistening everything silently, no wonder her eldest brother was so attentive to her.

"Today, the reason why Mo Ran invited the girl to come, I think the girl can roughly guess one or two."

"Yes, presumably for my marriage to your eldest brother." When it comes to marriage, Ruan Ningwei's clear eyes can't hide her loss.

"After the incident with Baihuayuan before, I saw that the second elder was very supportive of the marriage of the two of you, why did you suddenly change your mind yesterday?" Mo Ran stopped, raised his eyes to look at the woman opposite, and lowered his voice, "Isn't it because someone interfered?" ”

Hearing this, Ruan Ning, who had always hung his head, looked at Mo Ran with wide-eyed eyes, and finally nodded.

"That person must be the Empress Dowager Yuan."

Ruan Ning didn't speak, but acquiesced.

Mo Ran took another sip of tea, and sure enough, he was indeed right that day, the figure that passed by on the corner of the street was really the Empress Dowager Yuan.

"What does the girl think about this?"

After a while, Ruan Ning sighed slightly, "I don't want to give up this marriage, but I can't stop it, I ......."

"In fact, this matter is not without a solution, but it depends on whether the two of you have the perseverance to withstand external pressure."

Ruan Ningwei's eyes were a little bright, she looked up at Mo Ran, and always felt that the woman sitting quietly with tea in front of her was not as arrogant as rumored.

Mo Ran put down the tea cup, gently wiped the tea stains from the corner of his mouth with a handkerchief, and stared at Ruan Ningwei seriously, "At the end of every year, the barbarians in the north will harass the border, and then my eldest brother will ask for orders to lead the troops to the battle, and after the victory, he can go to the emperor to invite you to reward and point you to him, but this plan is implemented, and when you finally marry him, it may be delayed until next year." ”

Hearing this, Ruan Ning hung her head slightly in disappointment, and Mo Ran continued, "After all, the girl's good times are only a few years, my eldest brother will be twenty-three next year, and the girl will be twenty next year, if it doesn't happen, it will be ......."

Ruan Ningwei, who had been silent for a long time, finally spoke, "I can't wait, I can't wait." Raising her eyes again, the woman's eyes were a little moist, "It's not a secret, before you came to my house that day, we just sent off the Empress Dowager Yuan, the Empress Dowager doesn't want the two mansions to marry, my father has promised not to marry me to your eldest brother in order to show his loyalty to the emperor, and the beginning of spring next year will be the emperor's draft, and my father will also present my name and birthday together with the eight characters of my birthday." ”

Mo Ran stared at the woman who was a little choked with wide eyes, but he didn't expect that the Queen Mother would fight this idea in the end, and the best way to let Ruan Cheng show his sincerity was not to marry his daughter into the royal family, so that he would not be able to wait for the barbarians to come at the end of the year, and Su Jin Nian didn't even have the qualifications to propose conditions to the saint.

"Does my eldest brother know about this?"

"I didn't tell him, I'm impulsive, I'm afraid he ...... in case"

Mo Ran's previous thoughts were full of thoughts, and he couldn't say a word, if Ruan Ningwei married someone else, there was always a way to get it back, but if he went to the emperor's harem......