After a long time, I opened my eyes sluggishly. Miyahata's face was still close, and a shallow furrow loomed in the center of his eyebrows, and his breath hit my frozen face.

Then, without warning, he let me go.

There was a slight dizziness in my head for no apparent reason. I staggered up from the pillar, my eyes avoiding his body, awkwardly wandering around every space in the cramped pavilion.

I couldn't help but laugh at myself, what was I expecting......

It was only then that I could see the arrangement of the pavilion—there was nothing but a chaise longue, a stove, and a few lights.

Miyahata picked up an old ocarina on the chaise longue, sat down and said, "I don't want to blow it today, if you don't have anything else, please go back." ”

"Yes..."

"What?"

"I—" I struggled to think about what to say, and blurted out, "Wanqiu, it's you, right?" You redeemed the deed for her, didn't you? Except for Aunt Hua and I know, I have only told you about it. It's just, it's just that where did you get so much cash? ”

"That's what you want to tell me?" Gong Wan glanced up at me, then lowered his head to fiddle with the ocarina in his hand, "That's the third brother's money, I only said that I owed people money outside, and asked him for it, he is in the name of Brother Boxian, and he will give it to me if he is reluctant." If you want to thank him, thank him. ”

"I see," I was a little confused, "it's him......"

"Anything else?"

"I... No. ”

My cheeks were hot, and I stood cramped, feeling embarrassed. Miyahata still looked down at the ocarina in his hand, refusing to look at me. I turned around and walked out, and the moment I lifted the cotton curtain, the cold wind howling outside hit me again, and for a moment it blew the flame that had been suppressed in my heart for a long time into a hunt.

I turned my head sharply, just in time to meet Miyahata's gaze on me. He obviously didn't expect me to turn around suddenly, and his face flushed and he looked back.

"What about you?"

I returned to the pavilion again. Seeing me go and return, Miyahata looked up and asked, "What am I?" ”

"Don't you have anything to say to me?"

He looked up at me with his eyes fixed on me, as if there were dim stars in his eyes that were twinkling desperately. Time seemed to stand still, and we looked at each other like that, as if we looked at each other, and we could get answers to each other's questions buried deep in our hearts.

"Why do you want to marry Big Brother?"

He stood up, and instead I looked up at him.

"Based on your guess, with what you know about me, why do you think I am?"

"I don't know about you, even Gui Hotaru, I don't want to guess." His voice was like a trapped beast that was about to break out of its cage, "I just want to hear you say, why?" ”

There was a faint sourness in my heart. Countless sleepless nights, those nights when his face lingered in my mind, I fantasized that the next time I saw him, I would have to tell him everything—my world, my friend. I want to tell him all the invisible pain that I have on my back, and I tell him all about 1510.

I'm alone and really tired.

"I knew it." He smiled suddenly, as if he had read something in my eyes, "You're having a hard time, aren't you?" ”

Yes, Miyahata, I have a hard time. I have ulterior motives, and even you can't say it. Now that I have entered the Prince's Mansion, a battle with the palace is inevitable. Just because you are a member of the royal family, just because you are the younger brother who is difficult to protect yourself under the battle between the palace and the palace curtain, and because you are the one who really feels sorry for me. So, I can't tell you.

"I need rights, Miyahata." I wiped out the last trace of reluctance in my tone, "I do have a hard time, that is my dream, my fate. In order to achieve it, I need great power, so I can only find the crown prince. ”

"Then you have a heart for me?"

"Miyahata, if one day, you know my true identity, you will know that I can't have a heart for you." I said sadly, "I came to you today because I was impulsive, because I was drunk, and we won't see each other again in the future." ”

I turned my head in time to avoid seeing the tears. At this point, I can't see any more reason to stay here. He lifted the curtain and strode towards the end of the long bridge in the night wind.

"If I work hard, I can give you the rights you want!"

The trembling shouts of Miyahata revered in the quiet center of the lake, and I knew that he had chased him out.

Why did he chase it out.

"You said this is your mother's palace, right, it's so beautiful......" I was teary-eyed, looking at the blurred snow of the ice lake, "It's a matter of time before the palace curtain shoots at the prince and me." Miyahata, if you really cherish your mother and your own life, you should stay out of the matter, completely forget about me, forget everything tonight! ”

Without waiting for him to say more, I raised my feet and ran to the pitch black ahead.

I ran wildly for a long time, until I woke up from the wine, until the tears on my face froze, until the palace lights reappeared in front of me, and the palace people cast strange glances at me. I stopped and realized that my actions were rude.

After tidying up my appearance, I remembered Guan Ju's matter. However, I only cared about running wildly all the way, and I still remembered where the stone forest was before. I have been out for a long time, and I don't know what happened to the Qingwei Palace, whether the feast has been dispersed, and the palace guards have seen that I have not returned for a long time, and they are sending people to search all over the palace?

Thinking of this, I was stunned, and hurriedly asked the passing palace people about the direction of the Qingxu Palace, and hurried back - Guan Ju is clever, if you can't find me out of the stone forest, she will go back to the banquet to find me by herself, anyway, she also remembers the way.

Thinking so, I hurried to the Keiji Hall myself.

Fortunately, when I went back, the feast was not over yet, and Concubine Li had already led the harem ladies back into the table. The crowd drank three rounds, and no one noticed my windswept red face. After instructing Pu Jia to go outside to greet Guan Ju, I sat back down next to the palace and put on that proper smile.

"Lian'er, you're back, such a good thing, this palace has to enjoy it with you!" The palace maid touched my hand, and he looked drunk and serious. He stood up and walked to the emperor's side, and said loudly, "Father, I've drunk enough of this wine, and I'm tired of watching singing and dancing." Erchen found a skilled fireworks master in the city and made birthday fireworks for his father! If it is dark today, it is the right time for my father to move outside the palace and share a piece of his son's heart with the ministers! ”

"Yo, in the end, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is ingenious, and there is such a big thing hidden!" Concubine Li said with a smile, "Emperor, the courtiers and concubines on Chinese New Year's Eve are keeping the New Year in the palace, and they haven't seen the ceremonial flowers outside, this time we have to go and see it!" ”

"Very good!" The emperor was flushed, showing that he was already slightly drunk, "The lady is filial, and there is no reason not to look at it." Let's go out with me and let the wine smell go away! ”

The officials got the order and got up one after another to wait. The emperor led Concubine Li and Concubine Ying to walk in front, and I walked out of the palace with the palace curtain.

Tables and chairs with cushions had already been prepared outside the hall. The emperor sat at the front, the harem concubines and princes lined up in turn, and the ministers stood behind one after another, looking curiously into the sky.

When the palace attendant saw everyone standing still, he got up with a proud face and raised his hand to the eunuch waiting in the side hall. At that end, a huge hundred-petal purple stamen red peony immediately bloomed in the sky above the Yuanwu Hall in front of him. Then there are roses, begonias, hibiscus and other colorful fireworks, accompanied by loud explosions.

I saw a rare bright smile blooming on the emperor's face illuminated by fireworks. In the admiration of the ministers behind him, the palace curtains came to the emperor and said proudly, "Father, this scene is called a hundred flowers and a birthday, and there are rare beasts in the end!" ”

The emperor nodded with satisfaction, and his eyes were full of indescribable comfort and satisfaction. Looking at the rest of the people, Concubine Li and Concubine Ying didn't seem to have seen such ingenious thoughts, magnificent fireworks, intoxicated smiles on their faces, and only looked up at the endless colors in the sky. Even the Hou Ye, who was sitting at the end, showed a long-lost comfortable smile on his face that was reflected by the firelight.

I sighed softly and turned my head to the sky. I have to say that the fireworks in the palace are indeed extremely beautiful, so beautiful that you can forget all your troubles for a while. It's just such a beautiful firework, can he see it far away in the silent and dark Wangqi Pond?

I looked at the sky quietly, but I saw a huge orange chrysanthemum blooming on the other side, and when each petal was about to fall, countless dazzling white sparks burst out. I watched with some confusion as the tiny white sparks did not slowly disappear like the other sparks before, but grew strangely larger and brighter, until they seemed to be beams of ice falling from the sky.

My heart shrank suddenly, and I shouted, "Be careful! ”

However, it was already too late, and when the thin silver blades were inserted into the stone bricks in front of the Keiji Palace, everyone was slow to realize that danger was imminent. The crowd was chaotic in an instant, and the ministers scattered with shouts, scrambling to flee to the Qingyi Palace. However, the fireworks in the sky were still bursting in clusters, each of which burst out with countless sharp knives, flying towards the dense crowd.

"Escort! Protect the Emperor! Return to Keiden Hall! ”

Hundreds of soldiers came rushing from all over the place, and I could tell the color of their uniforms, it was the Praetorian Guards of Lifu. Looking back again, there were already eunuchs protecting the emperor and the palace curtains, and carefully moved to the eaves of the Qingjiao Palace. However, the minister who was originally standing behind was closest to the palace gate, and more than a dozen people had already been hit by flying knives in the head, and they fell violently, and everyone trampled on them in a panic, and they blocked the palace gate directly.

"Hurry up and go to the Yuanwu Hall and stop the assassins from continuing to ignite the fire!" It was Gong Wei who reacted first, and pointed sharply at the guards beside him, "Remember to capture alive and ask the real culprit behind the scenes!" ”