An Yu walked ahead, holding a broom to sweep, and Chu Yuan followed behind her, but did not speak.

"There is no one else here," An Yu said lightly: "There is no one in the four squares who can come out and walk around at will, and I am in charge of cleaning the palace road." ”

Chu Yuan nodded as if he didn't understand, but he didn't dare to raise his eyes to look at her, his hands were clasped and hung in front of his abdomen, still quiet.

"I thought you were going to ask something...... An Yu remembered the young man who would pester her to ask questions as long as there was no one, with melancholy in her eyes: "I don't understand you anymore." ”

She turned and looked at the boy she had watched grow up, from his eyebrows, which had surpassed her size, to his pale skin, which had not seen the sun.

How long has it been...... I've always treated him as a shadow.

"Alas......"

The tips of the bamboo branches kick up dust on the ground, accumulating the dust deposited every day, and the cyan stone floor is painted with new marks, each time it is swept over, leaving a different trajectory, engraved in its own years.

It is clear that Chu Yuan has only been in the palace for two months, why is his appearance in his memory so different from now?

An Yu didn't dare to think about it, and she couldn't trace it back with her mood, she suppressed herself and put on a more suitable face.

"Since you don't want to ask, then I won't say it," An Yu exhaled, pretending to be relaxed: "It's a pity that you missed the opportunity for Miss Ben to answer in person." ”

"Hmmm......"

“....... You still don't like to talk so much," she couldn't help but soften, and patiently enlightened the young man in front of her: "Since you don't want to listen, then tell me about your life these days?" Where is it on duty? What do you do on weekdays? I'll have time to look for you. ”

"In... Paper mill, stay in a shack..."Chu Yuan raised his eyes and persuaded: "It's dirty there on weekdays, so Miss should not go there." ”

"Are you tired on weekdays?"

"Not tired."

"Lao Wu asked you to help chop wood, you know that you are tired, why are you not tired in that place where you work day and night?"

“...... Not tired. ”

"Aren't you tired?"

Chu Yuan sighed: "Miss, tell me about the play." ”

"Well," An Yu breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that he had finally lost some distance from himself, and handed him the broom in his hand: "Help me sweep." ”

She pinched her shoulders and said, "I gave him the Shen family's gold sore medicine and told him to make good use of it." ”

"The Shen family?"

"Didn't you see me smashing the emperor's head during a private interview with Weifu?" An Yu picked the leaves on the side of the road and played with them in his hands: "Shen Qingjun is also in the car, with wound medicine. ”

"My subordinates didn't expect it to be the emperor."

"Those concubines are all well-educated ladies, besides him, who else in the sedan chair is so curious?"

"How did Miss Ke get the Shen family's medicine?"

"The emperor left it," An Yu saw Chu Yuan's puzzled face, and explained: "After his Xiao Shu was smeared, he put it aside, and he didn't take it before leaving." ”

Thinking about it, she sighed with emotion: "The emperor's liking for Shen Qingjun is superficial after all, and Shen Qingjun is even more so, he doesn't even have this majesty in his eyes." ”

"Why?"

"When I was seven years old, I took off the hairpin I lent to Sister Lan, why did I come back the next day?"

"Of course, Miss's beloved thing—"

"It seems that you really sent it back," An Yu said, "How is it that the Shen Mansion medicine bottle that Shen Qingjun carried with her is not her beloved thing?"

"My subordinates understood."

"Yes, children will subconsciously remember when they are ignorant, but the emperor does not."

“......”

Seeing that he was silent and his eyes were dodging, An Yu changed his words and said, "Then tell me, why did you suddenly appear in front of the door of the Hundred Opera Building?" ”

“...... Since the medicine bottle is precious, why did the young lady give it to him? ”

Without fun, he changed the topic dryly, An Yu said: "A fake bottle, I imitated it according to the real bottle, and I gave it to it." ”

"Because the medicine is real?"

"More than that," and regardless of whether Chu Yuan really didn't understand or was curious, An Yu whispered: "A young actor, who has never been out of the Hundred Opera Building, and I told him that if someone who knows the goods sees it, he will be Ling Chi's fate."

If he really took it for a chance to come to power, it would be stupid; Hiding or even discarding and destroying is cowardice. ”

“...... What if he frames others? ”

"You say the canal case?" Already approaching the Liyin Pavilion, An Yu glanced away, paid attention to the surrounding movements, and took the broom in Chu Yuan's hand.

"If this little eight has the courage to do this, I will look at it differently, but you don't have to worry, one is that he doesn't know if he has seen the seal of the Shen Mansion, and the other is that a person who can endure so far will not be so impulsive."

"Of course," she blinked, and encouraged, "your young lady is not without a bamboo basket to draw water. ”

Mai Dong and Peach Leaf, who came together in the distance, didn't know why they appeared here at this time.

An Yu stuffed the leaves into his hand and instructed: "Now is not the time to let them know about you, although I don't know why you are here today, but you have been out for so long, you hurry back, if there is a punishment, go to Xing'an of the Internal Affairs Office, don't carry it yourself." ”

Chu Yuan didn't have time to ask An Yu who Xing'an was, he just remembered that he couldn't cause trouble to the young lady, so he hurriedly put the leaves into his arms, and then went into the bamboo forest and flew away.

Seeing Chu Yuan disappear in front of him, An Yu turned his head, trotted to Mai Dong with a broom, and asked with a pant, "Why did my sister come here?" ”

"Light up today," Mai Dong pinned his sideburns behind his ears for An Yu, and said softly: "I'm afraid you don't know this custom, so I came to look for you." ”

"Point... Lamp? ”

I don't have this custom at home, and I have never heard my father and master talk about it, and it's about something that is only followed in the palace.

"The lighting is—"

"Peach Leaf," Mai Dong stopped Peach Leaf's popular science to An Yu, took An Yu's hand, and rubbed: "Don't ask anything, don't say anything, follow along, and I'll explain to you at night." ”

An Yu suppressed the sudden uneasiness and replied, "..... Be. ”

———————

When I went back, the palace maids who sprinkled and swept had already gathered in the courtyard, holding bamboo strips and tissue paper in their hands.

Mai Dong walked up to her aunt, took some from the basket and handed it to An Yu.

She staggered the two bamboo strips, tied them with rope at the intersection, bent the other end, staggered them above, and used wax rope to pull the staggered points of the upper and lower ends closer to make a flat lamp bone.

It looks like a pumpkin, why is this imperial city doing this lamp? Shangyuan Festival passed early in the morning.

An Yu didn't know why an inexplicable sense of anxiety rose in his heart, and the movements in his hands were not as serious and careful as usual, so he could only barely make the bamboo strips like Mai Dong.

"Shhhhh

The eunuch who cut the bamboo did not shave the bamboo strips clean, and there were some burrs left on the edges, An Yu didn't look carefully, and accidentally got bamboo piercings into the flesh.

With ten fingers connected to her heart, she couldn't hold back her pain and took a breath.

"You go back to the house," Mai Dong stood up to block the lights in the hospital, so that people couldn't see her expression clearly, and said in a deep voice: "If you see blood, it won't work, don't let people see it, go back secretly." ”

"Peach Leaf," Mai Dong looked at Peach Leaf who was about to speak and stopped, and sighed: "You go to accompany her." ”