() During lunch, Xue Ke was a little unhappy: "Why are these soup dishes every day, without any color, how can I put chopsticks?" ”

"Lady, the wound on your face has not healed now, and the doctor has instructed you not to eat dishes with sauce!" A little girl replied softly.

Xue Ke frowned and didn't speak.

In the face of the same milky white soup and green vegetables at night, Xue Ke put down his chopsticks heavily: "Ah Liu, has His Highness come back?" ”

"I've returned to the main hall."

"Come with me! How to eat such a meal! Xue Ke got up and took the cloak on the shelf.

"Lady! Wife! A few little girls didn't have time to call Mama Zhang to persuade them, so they saw that Xue Ke had already taken Ah Liu out of the door. When Mama Zhang arrived, the figure was gone. "Forget it, Your Highness will pay attention to it."

The prince's dining table was also lined with milky white soup and green vegetables, and when he saw them coming, he hurriedly ordered Xing'er to set up chopsticks. Xue Ke sighed: "Your Highness, can't you give you something delicious?" ”

The prince looked at her and coaxed softly: "Good! Well, you can eat whatever you want. Then he said to Ah Liu: "Is it arranged over there?" ”

"Shadow Five, they've all made arrangements."

The prince snorted coldly: "When the lonely man comes out, let the seventh master say hello!" Ah Liu thought of the Seventh Master's torture hall, and couldn't help but shudder for this unknown person.

Xue Ke ate two mouthfuls of saltless and sauceless dishes with a disgusted face, and the prince was interested in sandwiching this and that for her, and said: "I think this peach gum bird's nest is good, a sweet taste, come, you can taste it." As he spoke, he brought the spoon to Xue Ke's mouth. Xue Ke reluctantly opened his mouth, shook his head and said, "Okay, okay, I'm full, Your Highness will pass on the meal." ”

"No need to pass it on anymore, it's good for me to eat this!" The prince was afraid that his meal would be served, and Xue might not be able to eat it, so he hurriedly said.

Xue Ke stuck out his tongue, originally wanted to dip some light when the prince ate, but it seemed that there was really no chance at all.

After eating, the next person cleaned up the table, and the prince took Xue Ke's hand and walked around the courtyard. Xue Ke couldn't help but smile and said, "Your Highness is really patient!" ”

The prince said: "Why are you praising me so much today? ”

"With my current face, His Highness can still look at me with affection, it's not easy." Xue Ke couldn't help but quip.

The crown prince stopped and looked at her seriously: "You will definitely be fine, but I must tell you that even if you are the way you are, I like it." ”

Xue Ke nodded and said with a smile: "I also don't think there's anything bad about the way it looks now." ”

The prince looked at her smiling Qingfeng Jiyue, although he didn't understand why she didn't particularly care about her appearance, but his heart was a little lighter, as long as she was happy, as for the scar on her face, he didn't care.

Ah Liu returned to the hug Pu courtyard and asked loudly, "Where is Mama?" ”

"Ah Liu, Mama has back pain this afternoon and is resting in the room! Is there something wrong with Ah Liu's girl looking for Mama? What about the lady? A little girl came up and said.

"Oh, it's fine. The lady is resting in the Suzheng Hall tonight, and I will talk to my grandmother. ”

"Hey! I'll get back to Mama later! Ah Liu, don't worry! The little girl replied crisply.

Ah Liu nodded. The girl who was cleaning the wreckage in the corner of the wall ran over and said with a smile: "Ah Liu, do you want to pack any clothes?" ”

Ah Liu nodded and said, "I came back to get the lady's clothes." The little girl was about to say something, but Ah Liu had already raised her feet and walked to the room, and the little girl shouted from behind: "Sister Ah Liu, I'll go with you!" It's hard for you to take it alone! ”

"What's so bad about a few clothes!" Ah Liu entered the house, suddenly stopped again, turned around and said: "By the way, the lady said that Su Zhengtang's pillow is too hard, let me take a pillow she is used to, you will go with me later!" ”

"Okay! Sister Liu, I'm going to wash my hands! The little girl's smile was crisp and sweet, revealing a small tiger tooth at the corner of her mouth.

Ah Liu looked at her quietly, and also showed a smile, and Ying Wu, who was hidden in the shadows, saw this smile and couldn't help but shiver. Ah Liu has been a maid by Xue Ke's side for a long time, and sometimes people forget that she used to be the most outstanding and cold-blooded shadow guard among them.

The little girl happily wrapped the pillow with the burden and jumped behind Ah Liu.

"Sister Ah Liu! His Royal Highness is really good to the lady! ”

Ah Liu replied softly: "Yes! Speaking of which, His Highness has never been so kind to a woman before! ”

"But how good-looking the lady is!" The little girl said enviously.

"It's not just pretty." Ah Liu rarely gossiped once, lowered his voice and said, "Aren't the masters of Furong Garden good-looking?" You know what? The lady has to spend 500 taels of gold every month to buy a spice in the West Market. ”

"What spices?" The little girl leaned closer, looking curious.

"It's a spice from the Western Regions, called Fei or something!"

"Fei what?" The little girl tilted her head and thought for a long time, and when she saw Ah Liu, she regained a pure and harmless smile: "I don't know these spices, but does Your Highness really like them?" ”

Ah Liu pouted: "Who knows!" Let's go, it's really cold at night, by the way, your name is boiled snow, isn't it! The name is quite nice! ”

The two talked and laughed all the way, but it was lively.

When he arrived at Suzheng Hall, Ah Liu took the pillow from Boiling Xue's hand and said with a smile: "I'll take it in!" It's hard to run for you, I still have a box of snacks from the lady, you can take it and eat it! ”

The boiled snow crisp responded, and he hugged the snack box and thanked him.

It's just that she walked out of the Suzheng Hall and did not go back to Hupu Yuan directly, but looked carefully behind her, and saw that no one was going around, but she went around to the door of Furong Garden.

She was obviously familiar with the mother-in-law at the door, gave the snack to the woman with a smile, and slipped in.

Furong Garden is really not a very big place in the East Palace, and the prince has placed all the women stuffed here. He was originally very self-denying in this regard, except for the days when he was angry with Xue Ke, he basically did not set foot in Furong Garden. It is precisely because of this that the women in Furong Garden are also at peace, and they are all lonely people at the end of the world, and they are also stable with each other.

Cooking snow and driving lightly came to a courtyard.

"Sun Zhaoyi?" She whispered outside the door.

A little girl came over and opened the door: "It's Sister Boiled Snow!" Zhaoyi has already changed her clothes and is ready to go to bed! ”

"Ready to go to bed so early?" Boiled snow sticks out your tongue.

The little girl welcomed her in. Sun Zhaoyi had really changed her bedclothes, removed her makeup ring, and sighed: "It's lonely for a long time, it's better to go to bed early, maybe you can meet him in your dreams." ”

Boiling Xue was also sad in her heart, Sun Zhaoyi was favored for a period of time last year, and the prince also called her to serve two or three times a month, but I don't know how the one in Baopu Yuan regained her favor later, and the prince did not set foot in Furong Garden.

Boiling Xue and Sun Zhaoyi are old lovers, and they often come over, and they also know that Sun Zhaoyi is infatuated with the prince. I couldn't help laughing: "What do you guess I'm here for today?" ”

Sun Zhaoyi's heart moved, and she hurriedly ordered the others to retreat, and asked in a low voice, "But you succeeded?" ”

"Not only did I succeed, but I also found out a big secret!" Boiling Xue hurriedly leaned over and told the original story of the pillow and the spices that Ah Liu said today.

"Spices? What Fi? I've never heard of that. ”

"It must not be an ordinary spice! Zhaoyi Ming'er slowly investigated. ”

Sun Zhaoyi nodded, and then asked nervously, "Is the scar on her face really getting worse?" ”

"That's still fake!"

Sun Zhaoyi's face was panicked, and he grabbed Boiling Xue's hand and said, "Has the prince found out?" Will it find out to us? ”

"I'm doing it carefully, I'll never find out!"

"Really?" A cold rhetorical question came from the door.

"Who is it?" Sun Zhaoyi couldn't help but scream.

As soon as Ah Liu waved his hand, the four mothers-in-law stepped forward, skillfully tied up the two, and stuffed a piece of cloth into their mouths by the way.

Seeing that the two were constantly struggling, Ah Liu smiled: "Do you want to talk?" Don't worry, there will be time for you to talk. ”

Sun Zhaoyi and Boiling Xue were quietly taken to the front hall of the Suzheng Hall. The prince sat in the middle with an expressionless face, and Xue Ke looked at the people who came in for a long time. And on the table in front of the prince was a torn pillow.

Boiled snow was taken to another room, where two mothers-in-law were interrogating. Sun Zhaoyi knelt down tremblingly, and the prince finally looked at her, nodded and said, "It turned out to be you." ”

The cloth in Sun Zhaoyi's mouth was taken away, and she took two steps on her knees, not arguing, but just shouting in a low voice: "Prince, Prince!" "It's like crying, crying is faint, and people are not sad when they hear it.

The prince was a little impatient: "Did you say it yourself or did I find someone to ask you to say it?" ”

"Master! The concubine is wrong, it is the concubine who is jealous of Tang Niangzi's favor, so she made this decision! The concubine's body was covered with fat, and she begged the master to spare the concubine this time! The concubine body just misses the prince too much! ”

Seeing that the prince didn't speak, she cried in a low voice: "The master is pitiful and pitiful to the concubine, since the master spoiled the concubine last year, the concubine is the only one in his eyes, and the concubine is not greedy, just ask the master to occasionally look at the concubine body is enough!" But, but, the concubine hasn't seen her master for a year and seventy-two days! ”

Her voice was tactful, and the whole person knelt on the ground and looked particularly thin and pitiful.

Xue Ke looked at the prince with a smile.

"What's in this pillow?"

"Yes, it's powder." Sun Zhaoyi said timidly.

"What does this powder do?"

"Yes, it slows down the healing of scars." Sun Zhaoyi cried low again.

With a "snap", the tea bowl split into several petals on the ground, and the tea splashed everywhere, Sun Zhaoyi was so frightened by this sudden sound that she stopped crying, staring at a pair of teary eyes, and looking at the prince with rain.

"Lonely, I don't have the patience and the time to listen to you cry. Since you don't want to say it, Ah Liu, take her to the torture hall. ”

Sun Zhaoyi watched Ah Liu get closer and closer with a frightened face, and shouted in despair: "Prince, save me!" ”

"Wait!"

The crown prince and Ah Liu both looked at Xue Ke.

Xue Ke sighed in her heart, in the previous life, she was taken into the torture hall of the Zongren Mansion and the Qin Wangfu by the queen and Yang Siniang, she naturally knew what it was like, although the woman in front of her was a little annoying to cry, but she was still a little unbearable in her heart when she was really sent to such a place.

Sun Zhaoyi looked at her with undisguised fear and disgust, and she didn't know how Xue Ke was going to deal with her.

"Probably the person you hate the most right now is me." Xue Kewei smiled: "But soon it won't be me." When you have tasted all kinds of torture instruments in the torture hall, what you hate is the person who instructed you, hate him for pushing you into the fire pit, and then you will hate yourself, and finally you will hate your father and mother, why did you bring you into this world. ”

Xue Ke's tone was still very calm, but Sun Zhaoyi couldn't help but tremble: "What do you think is the place in the torture hall?" Will you still be able to cry twice when the time comes? ”

Xue Ke walked in front of her, squatted down, and took her hand, Sun Zhaoyi subconsciously hidden. "Look at these hands, with slender fingers, they must be able to play a song and embroider a purse. But you know, if you have 10 nails pulled out, you won't even be able to pick up chopsticks. ”

Sun Zhaoyi screamed in fright, and the whole person flinched again and again, looking at Xue Ke in front of him like a ghost.

"Am I right, Ah Liu?" Xue Ke tilted his head and asked.

Although Ah Liu didn't know how his wife knew this, he nodded objectively, thought about it and added: "The Seventh Master's methods are even better." ”

Sun Zhaoyi couldn't even scream this time, and the whole person trembled like chaff, looking at the prince like a drowning person seeing a straw.

It's a pity that the prince's expression hasn't changed from beginning to end, and he hasn't even looked at her seriously.

The hope in Sun Zhaoyi's eyes was dashed little by little, and finally the last bit of fire was extinguished, and she turned to Xue Ke with a dead face, and said, "Lady save me." ”

Sun Zhaoyi still said in a low and tactful voice, but no longer looked at the crown prince.

"The concubine's name is Sun Siyao. is the concubine of the governor of Yangzhou Prefecture. Four years ago, I entered the palace when I was selected in the palace, and I entered the palace with Boiling Snow.

Because of my outstanding appearance, I was selected by the queen to go to Kunning Palace. At first, I thought it was just to be a palace maid, there were four of us in total, and the queen asked the palace grandmother to train us, but the content of the teaching was how to serve men.

Later, I was given to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince by the Empress. I have not seen the crown prince in the two years of Furong Garden, and the people of Kunning Palace contacted us at first, and then saw that we were useless and left me to fend for myself.

I thought this would be good, but who knew that His Highness suddenly favored me last year. I lost my soul and thought only of seeing His Highness again every day. The queen mother also contacted me many times at that time, but I only thought about His Highness and never did anything to be sorry for His Highness.

But His Highness seemed to have forgotten me and never came again.

Two days ago, I heard from the mother-in-law on the second door that the lady was injured on the face. Later, the people from Kunning Palace came to me and said that there was a kind of medicinal powder, and the scars on the lady's face would not be good after being stained, and said that as long as the lady's appearance became ugly, she would inevitably lose the favor of His Royal Highness. Sun Siyao seemed to have no love anymore, and said unhurriedly.

"How did the Queen's people contact you?" Xue Ke frowned, she thought that after she was cleaned, the door of the East Palace would be cleaned.

"It was originally a mother-in-law on the second gate, and then the mother-in-law was sent to Zhuangzi, and now it is Ma Daopo."

"Ma Daopo?"

"The one who claims to be able to get rid of evil spirits and cure women's diseases, and often goes in and out of the inner courtyard?" Ah Liu asked from the side.

Sun Siyao nodded: "It's her." ”

Xue Ke asked about the same question, and motioned for Ah Liu to take her down.

"What are you going to do with her?" The prince walked over and looked at Xue Ke's eyes a little empty.