Horse-drawn carriages staggered through the bustling streets, and snowflakes fell from the sky.

Getting off the carriage, Ming Ran ran quickly to the backyard of the Hou Mansion.

"Mother, I'm back."

Before you see him, you hear his voice first.

In the room full of incense, Mrs. Mu Shi, who was on the purple wood soft couch, looked sideways at the mother-in-law Wen Ma who was standing on the side, raised a smile, and whispered: "It really hasn't changed at all." ”

Mother Wen is a maid who has followed Mu in the Rongguo Mansion since she was a child, so she naturally understands that Mu's words are indicating the behavior of dyeing.

She lowered her head with a smile and said, "It's a good thing that the eldest lady has a cheerful temperament, and outsiders say that she is very much like the Queen Mother when she was young." ”

When the Queen Mother was young, she was the first beauty in the capital and deservedly the first beauty.

Mrs. Ming sighed softly and said: "Alas, the Queen Mother is dignified and elegant, where is the shadow of the Queen Mother?" ”

As he spoke, Mingran's figure walked into the room, and a pair of white hands lifted the bead curtain.

"Mother, I'm back." She said as she walked over to the couch.

Mrs. Ming deliberately lowered her face, got up and pulled her to stand in front of her, her hand just touched Ming Ran, frowned and said, "Why are your hands so cold?" What about Yunhe? Why don't you prepare a hand stove for you? ”

As she spoke, she shoved the hand stove in her hand into Mingran's hand.

"I left her in Sue House." Ming Ran took the stove and walked to the soft couch and sat down as he spoke.

Mrs. Ming sat on the other side, looked at her face carefully, and saw that she was the same as before entering the palace, and she was not half thin, so she was curious: "Miss Su is really so sick?" ”

Someone had already informed her of what happened at the gate of the mansion today, but she hadn't heard of what happened to Miss Su.

Ming Ran raised a smile at her and said, "It's not that she's seriously ill, it's that she's in a difficult situation in the Su family, so I'll leave Yunhe to take care of her." ”

Mrs. Ming smiled: "It should be so, after all, Miss Su once saved you." ”

She was clearly dyed with a child, and she was grateful to Miss Su for her rescue at the beginning.

Ming Ran hugged the hand stove tightly, stretched his feet on the couch and sat up, and said coquettishly: "Mother, I want to eat the golden silk cake made by Mother Wen." ”

Mrs. Ming's heart was softened by her soft cry, she reached out and scraped the tip of Ming Ran's tall nose, and said with a smile: "Could it be that the small kitchen in the Queen Mother's palace is not as good as Mother Wen's craftsmanship?" ”

After speaking, she looked sideways at Mother Wen and nodded, Mother Wen bowed down and exited the house, heading towards the small kitchen.

Ming Ran smiled and said: "Of course, the one in my aunt's palace is excellent, I'm not hungry, so I remembered the pastries made by Mother Wen." ”

There was a small square table of Nanmu on the soft couch, and there was a plate of glutinous rice cakes on the table, and Mrs. Ming pushed the delicate small plate in front of Ming Ran and said, "Eat this first." ”

Mingran reached out and picked up a piece and used it in small mouths.

"How is the Queen Mother?" Mrs. Ming looked at Ming Dye with a smile in her eyebrows.

"Okay." She said as she swallowed.

Mrs. Ming's originally smiling face slowly sank, she seemed to think about something, and said: "The queen mother has a hard life, although she has the emperor and King Chen under her knees, but after all, she has no blood. She often announces that you will accompany you in the palace, and you will not be able to accompany us for two years before you get married, if you ....... in the future"

The Queen Mother is the eldest daughter of the Rongguo Mansion, and Mrs. Ming is the second daughter. The two sisters have had a good relationship since childhood, and when they knew that the Queen Mother would never be able to get pregnant, she was a weak woman, and they all wanted to cut Concubine Lin, who poisoned the queen mother's womb, with a thousand knives.

Ming Ran heard her sad tone, and immediately interrupted: "Mother, why did you mention these things again?" ”

"Okay, okay, don't read it, don't read it." Tears welled up in her eyes.

Ming Ran was startled, got up from the couch and walked to her side, took her hand, and comforted: "Mother, the emperor treats his aunt better than Concubine Liu, you don't have to worry too much." ”

Concubine Liu is Xiao Yiqian's biological mother, and he voluntarily passed it on to the Queen Mother when he was born.

Mrs. Ming wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes and said, "Alas, you just returned home, don't mention these bad things." ”

"yes, that's good." She gently pinched Mrs. Ming's face and laughed at her.

Mrs. Ming was amused by her behavior, and looked at her with a doting smile in her eyes.

"No rules."

Ming Ran smiled, turned around and sat on the couch, and said, "Mother, I won't accompany you for lunch, I want to go out of the house." ”

Mrs. Ming's chuckling face instantly fell, and she said unhappily: "Why did you just go out when you returned home?" ”

"It's not like I've been in the palace for three months, it's really suffocating me." She continued to pick up the glutinous rice cake on the table and use it.

Mrs. Ming said earnestly: "You, you are going to be in time, how can you still be so arrogant, if you get married, how can you be the responsibility of the head mother of the family?" ”

Listening to Mrs. Ming's nagging, Ming Ran reached out to support her forehead, she stuffed all the pastries in her hand into her mouth, and got up while swallowing.

"Mother, I'm full, Mother Wen's pastries will be left for me until tomorrow, I'll go first." With that, she stepped out, and as soon as she walked out of the room, she ran out of the room.

Before Mrs. Ming's words could be said in her mouth, Ming Ran had already run out of the house.

Remembering the heavy snow outside, she got up and picked up the cloak hanging on the elevated shelf and chased her out of the house.

She stood on the cloister outside the house, and there was no one in sight in the courtyard.

The bone-eating wind howled, tiny snowflakes flew in the air, and the snow that had melted last night piled up again.

A cold swept over her, and her graceful face overflowed with worry, and she looked out of the courtyard uneasily.

It's cold, I don't know what this kid is doing when he leaves the house?

The vermilion lacquer gate at the entrance of the mansion is open, and the two sides of the main entrance are carved with half-crouching stone lions, and the official road outside the mansion has been covered with snow.

A slender figure quickly stepped out of the house, she glanced at the little man who was squatting behind the door to avoid the cold, and ordered, "Go to the stable and lead a horse." ”

Hearing this, the two little servants hurriedly walked out from behind the door, bowed down and said, "I've seen the eldest lady." ”

One of the servants took a step forward and said, "The little one will go to the stable, and the eldest lady will wait." ”

After speaking, he ran towards the house.

Mingran walked to the mansion plaque, and she looked up at the snowflakes flying in the air.

It's cold.

She flinched, clasped her hands to her chest, and paced back and forth on the stone steps.

A carriage appeared on the street in front of the official road, slowly swaying towards the Marquis of Ningyuan's mansion.

Ming Ran walked up the next stone staircase and looked sideways.

Seeing the oncoming carriage clearly, a dazzling smile was hooked on both sides of her lips, and that beautiful smile instantly eclipsed the pure and immaculate snow scene.

In a moment, the carriage stopped on the official road.

A man dressed in a snow fox lifted the curtain and got out of the carriage, he was dressed in a blue brocade robe, with a green silk crown on the top of his hair, and a pleasant smile on his handsome face.

This person is the prince of Runwangfu, An Xuqiao.

Ming Ran since last year after being rescued from the moat, her temperament has changed greatly, she sneaked out of the house for the first time, and she met with the prince of Runwang, so the two of them met in three days and two ends to leave the house.

It's also strange to say that the prince of Runwang is really obedient to Ming Ran, let him come out of the house over the wall, and he will never go through the main gate. Let him walk, and he will never dare to ride a horse.

As we all know in the capital, the prince of Runwang is too good to say anything to the eldest lady of the Marquis of Ningyuan.

From the moment he lifted the curtain, his eyes were fixed on the woman on the stone steps, and before the coachman could bring a small stool, he got out of the carriage and walked quickly towards her.

As soon as his feet stepped up the stone steps, he heard Ming Ran say, "I thought you weren't coming, but I was about to look for you." ”

"Usually, when you just returned home, you didn't have time to see me." Three steps up the five-step stone stairs, he stood beside Ming Ran and looked at her with a smile on his face.

Ming Ran looked at him, frowned, and said, "If you have something to do today, go to the drunken sky." ”

Seeing her shrinking coldly, An Xuqiao took off her big hat, and then put it on for her, and said, "Why don't you add a cloak when you go out?" ”

"It's not urgent, stop grinding, let's go." After saying that, she stretched out her hand to gather the big man, and then walked quickly down the stone steps to the carriage parked on the official road.

An Xuqiao was shocked by the cold wind, and he lowered his head in confusion as he followed her towards the carriage.

As soon as Ming Ran got into the carriage, he felt a lot warmer around him, and took the handstove placed aside and hugged it in his arms.

An Xuqiao sat beside her, smiled happily, and said, "What's the urgency?" ”

Ming Ran glanced at him and said, "Have you heard of Miss Su who rescued me from the moat last year?" ”

An Xuqiao lowered her head and thought about it, and said, "Is it Miss Su who was rewarded by the Queen Mother after saving you?" What's wrong with her? ”

At that time, it was rumored in the capital that this Miss Su had saved the eldest lady of the Marquis of Ningyuan's mansion, and everyone thought that she would get the reward of the Queen Mother and jump into the noble circle of the capital, but they didn't want to have no news about her in less than two months.

Ming Ran leaned closer to him and whispered: "I heard that she is seriously ill, I went back to the house today to see her, her mother died some time ago, she suspected that Mrs. Su was poisoned to death." ”

"Poisoned?" An Xuqiao was surprised.

Ming Ran nodded lightly and said, "Because Master Su announced to the public that Mrs. Su died of illness, she had doubts but no evidence. ”

An Xuqiao looked at her and nodded as if she didn't understand, and quickly reacted, "Then you want to find out the truth for her?" ”

Ming Ran nodded and said, "You will go to explore the Su family's mausoleum in a while, and then take two reliable people to open the coffin tonight." ”

"What?" An Xuqiao raised her voice and looked at her with wide eyes.

"What are you fuss about?" Mingran has no good airway.

An Xuqiao pursed her lips and said in a low voice, "Why do you want to dig a grave?" ”

Ming Ran whispered: "If you don't open the coffin for poison testing, how can you know if Mrs. Su really died of poison?" ”

An Xuqiao was a little unhappy and said, "Do you have to go?" ”

Ming Ran kept silent and glanced at him.

"Okay, I'll go." He reluctantly agreed, and then bowed his head and remained silent.

Seeing that he agreed, Ming Ran smiled and said, "Thank you." ”

An Xuqiao raised his head and smiled, and said, "Thank you and see you, you know that I will agree." ”