() The discussion lasted until late at night, and everyone was still dissipated.

The prince returned to the inner room, but found that the room was empty, Xing'er carefully replied while handing over the hot towel: "Tang Niangzi will go back to Baopu Courtyard after taking the medicine, and Mama passed the soft sedan chair and carried it back, and the lady said that the master was discussing a big matter, so let the slave not reply." ”

The prince nodded, he stayed in the palace for many days, saying that he was clean every day, but his heart was very chaotic, and he really felt relaxed at this time. Xing'er had already boiled hot water, and he came out of the bathroom to change into a clean middle coat, but found that he was not sleepy.

"Xing'er, I'll go for a walk in Baopu Courtyard." The prince told him to bring a coat.

"Master! It's late at night, and the lady is sleeping, so why don't you go again tomorrow! You've just bathed, don't catch a cold! Xing'er tried her best to dissuade her.

"Needless to say." The prince waved his hand, stretched out his hand to let Xing'er serve him to put on his coat, and whispered as if talking to himself: "I don't worry about her if I don't go to see her." ”

Xing'er sighed in her heart and said, "Yes!" The lady is also infatuated with the master, and she has suffered such grievances for the master! ”

The prince was silent, stepping on the silver moonlight, stepping on the broken snow, all the way over, but all that echoed in his ears was a crisp slap when he turned around.

The lights in the courtyard are dim. The prince went in lightly, and Mama Zhang greeted him: "Prince! Why are you still here so late? Mama Zhang looked at the prince's still somewhat wet hair, and couldn't help reproaching Xing'er and said, "Xing'er, you don't have a plan in your heart, can you joke about catching a cold at this season?" ”

Xing'er looked at the prince with an aggrieved expression. The prince waved his hand and said, "I'm fine!" Is the lady okay? ”

Mama Zhang sighed: "I just fell asleep." After taking the medicine, I yelled that I was hungry, I came over with some porridge, I ate two bites and pulled the wound, choked, coughed for a long time, sweated the wound in pain, and then didn't eat, and then I fell asleep groggily, and woke up in a daze in less than half an hour, and woke up and cried out of pain. Father! Which master in the palace is so ruthless? This is deliberately trying to ruin the lady's appearance! ”

The prince was silent, opened the curtain and went in, between which Xue Ke curled up on the bed, a small one, the whole person really slept very unsteadily, his long eyelashes were flickering unconsciously, and his fingers twitched, as if he was greatly frightened, without daytime composure and boldness.

The prince also twitched in pain, gently held her hand, wanted to speak but couldn't speak, just put his hand to his lips.

Xue Ke seemed to sense someone, and asked in a daze before opening his eyes, "Is it dawn?" ”

"Lady, it's almost dawn, lady sleep again, and it'll be dawn."

Mama Zhang wiped the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief, and replied to the prince softly: "The lady is confused at this time, and the doctor said something when she took the medicine, saying that it doesn't hurt so much every day. ”

"Mama, my knees hurt, you help me rub them." Xue Ke turned over with difficulty, turned his back to the prince, and muttered.

The prince gently lifted the quilt, Xue Ke knelt in the snow for a few hours, his knees were already swollen and his two fingers were high, and the prince was lucky, and put his palm on her medicated knee.

Feeling a stream of heat through his knees, relieving the cold feeling like a pinprick, Xue Ke couldn't help but snort comfortably, and said coquettishly for a while: "A-Niang, don't go, you stay with me for a while, I'm so cold." ”

The prince's heart was sour, Mama Zhang wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, went to the outside to move a quilt and said, "Why don't you accompany the lady here at night!" ”

The crown prince nodded, and carefully hugged Xue Ke from behind, like holding a piece of fragile crystal glass. This time, he swore that at all costs, he would also protect the person he loved, and he would not be his five-year-old self again, watching his mother get farther and farther away from him in the empty palace.

Although the prince did not announce to the world when he returned to the palace, the wind in the capital is always the most sensitive. The letter boxes that were handed to the East Palace early in the morning were already piled up, and the people waiting for the prince to receive them outside the East Palace were also overcrowded. Xue Ke struggled to get up and said, "Your Highness, go and get down to business!" What are you rubbing around with me? ”

The prince was carrying a bowl of bird's nest porridge and feeding Xue Ke spoonful by spoonful.

Ah Liu persuaded: "Your Highness should let the slave and maid come, the lady is anxious, and it will not be good to choke." Ah Liu was apprehensive about Xue Ke's cough last night.

The prince knew that it was true, and handed the bowl to Ah Liu: "Then I'll go over first, and come back at lunch." ”

"I just reported that Cheng Xiangye is here, Your Highness can't be lazy, go quickly, stay for lunch, and General Shi, Wang Shilang, and Mr. Qin Chuan's side His Royal Highness will personally thank you one by one, my side is the time to recuperate, Your Highness can't feel at ease here, besides, I don't want to see people these days, why doesn't Your Highness let me clean for a few days?" Xue Ke said a lot in one breath, and he couldn't help but feel a little weak.

The prince didn't understand what she meant, she just didn't want him to stay here and feel guilty, lowered her head and held her hand, and said for a while: "I know." If you promise to take care of your wounds, I promise you that you won't be here in a few days. ”

Xue Ke reluctantly pulled out a slight smile: "As His Highness wishes." ”

The night was dark, the prince's face was even more gloomy, Ah Liu on the side had already been accustomed to bearing this kind of low pressure, and the poor thing was the two imperial doctors on the side, although they were standing and replying, but they already wished that they were invisible. But it was obviously not as they wished, and the prince's eyes looked at them directly: "What do you mean? Didn't you say you wouldn't have scars? ”

"Qi, Your Highness Qi, it is said that this kind of superficial scar will not leave a scar, but everyone's physique is different, I didn't expect Tang Niangzi to have this kind of scar physique. Weichen really didn't expect it. ”

Another imperial doctor was also busy nodding and said, "Whether there is a scar or not really varies from person to person. Your Highness, this is indeed unexpected! ”

The prince pressed his frowning brow with his hand and looked at Ah Liu: "Does the lady know?" What is reflected? ”

Ah Liu thought about it, in fact, she has always been a little strange, although Xue Ke is beautiful, but she has always had a kind of indifferent attitude towards her appearance, this time the injury on her face, in addition to caring about whether the medicine hurts or not, she has never asked when her face will be better in the past few days.

Also this morning, when Mama Zhang was grooming, she suddenly found that the scars on Xue Ke's face were not falling off to reveal new pink flesh after scabbing, but bulging on her face, looking ugly and conspicuous.

Mama Zhang was so frightened that the comb fell to the ground, and Xue Ke asked, "What's wrong?" Mama Zhang looked at the face that was not very clear in the bronze mirror, and hurriedly covered it up and smiled: "It's okay, it's okay, it's old, and your hands are slippery." Xue Ke let out a soft "oh", and this matter was over.

Ah Liu thought for a while about today's Xue Ke, and replied to the prince with an expressionless face: "The lady may not know yet, and she has never asked." ”

"Is there still a way?" The prince looked at the imperial doctor irritably: "You are all the best dermatology saints in the Tai Hospital, how can you be helpless?" ”

"Shame on you!" The two of them hurriedly knelt down and said.

"This is really related to personal physique, and the ministers are also helpless."

"Have you carefully checked the powder and ointment?"

"The ministers and others have already checked each other several times in the afternoon, and there is nothing unusual."

The prince waved his hand, and the two of them retreated softly, and only exhaled when they reached the door, wiping the sweat from their heads.

"You should step aside, too." There was a hint of gloom in the prince's voice.

Ah Liu quietly retreated. When he returned to Baopu Courtyard, Xue Ke had already drunk the soothing soup and fell asleep, and Mama Zhang, who looked anxious, looked at Ah Liu. Ah Liu also shook his head helplessly.

Although Xue Ke stayed in Baopu Courtyard for the past few days, he did not clean up. In the past, Xue Ke's identity was just a woman of unknown origin hidden in the East Palace, but at this time, she was the prince's concubine who was made public.

Although the prince strictly ordered that no one should disturb Xue Ke's recuperation, fortunately, Xue Ke's injuries gradually improved, and whenever he had leisure, he turned through the women's prayers and summoned two scribes from Linglong Pavilion to ask in detail about the details of each family's daughters.

Because of the injury on his face, it is inconvenient to see people, so Xue Ke picked some important posts and asked people to reply to them one by one. But I heard Ah Liu's report: "Lady, Mrs. Ren is here!" ”

"Sister-in-law is here?" Xue Ke was pleasantly surprised: "Come in!" I wonder if Ah Yuan is here? ”

With a cup of tea, the fairy girl has been welcomed into the Baopu Courtyard. Xue Ke greeted him with a smile, and when he saw that Ah Yuan had not come behind him, he couldn't help pouting at the fairy aunt in disappointment, and then grabbed the fairy girl's arm: "Sister-in-law, is she in good health?" Why did you come here in person on this cold day? ”

The fairy girl smiled: "If you don't come to see it in person, you won't be at ease, hey, your face?" ”

Xue Ke said with a smile: "I thought that the whole capital knew about my shame in the palace, why didn't my sister-in-law know?" ”

Immortal Gu's expression became solemn, and she pulled Xue Ke into the courtyard under the sun, looked at it carefully for a while, turned to Ah Liu and asked, "What's going on?" ”

Ah Liu swallowed his saliva, not knowing how to explain, Xue Ke smiled and said: "It's just that my face was beaten, what's the matter, I'll tell you about it when I go back, it's almost all over the next few days!" ”

Ah Liu wanted to make a look, but she had never been good at it, and her face had always been very stiff, so she had to cough lightly. The fairy aunt didn't care about anything else, pulled Xue Ke into the room, drank back the other subordinates, and said to Ah Liu: "There is a problem with the medicine that your girl smeared." ”

Ah Liu shook his head and said, "No, the imperial doctor has already checked it several times." ”

Xue Ke watched the two of them talk, and finally felt that something was wrong, and asked, "Ah Liu, what's wrong?" ”

Ah Liu subconsciously avoided Xue Ke's eyes: "There is something wrong with the girl's scar, and the imperial doctor said that it is a little troublesome." ”

"Oh!" Xue Ke nodded: "I feel that the wound is a little itchy in the past few days, and it is bulging to the touch, which is not right." ”

Ah Liu rolled her eyes inappropriately in her heart, wouldn't ordinary women cry when they heard about their faces? Her lady is inevitably too calm, and for some reason, Ah Liu has a faint pride in her heart.

"Sister-in-law, is it so ugly?" Xue Ke asked the fairy Gu with a smile.

The fairy aunt also slapped her hand away angrily: "Why do you still have the heart to make trouble?" That's a big deal! ”

Xue Ke sighed: "Apart from life and death, what else is the big deal?" ”

Listening to her words, the fairy aunt couldn't help but think of Ren Yao, her heart was sour, if she could, she would rather ruin her peerless appearance for Ren Yao's peace, at this time she reluctantly smiled and said, "What you said is also true." After a while, he said, "But could this scar of yours be tampered with?" ”

Ah Liu, who was standing on the side, frowned and said, "But the imperial doctor said that the powder and ointment are fine." ”

"Powder, ointment?" The fairy girl snorted coldly: "There are many knives in the palace that kill people without seeing blood, used handkerchiefs, pillows, water for washing faces, incense used, which cannot be fatal, what is the use of just checking the powder and ointment!" ”

Xue Ke knew the life experience of the fairy girl, and also knew that what she said was true, so he nodded and said: "If you are born like this, it is fine, if it is plotted by others, you can't tolerate it." ”

Fairy Gu nodded: "You are very skinny when you are young, Brother Yao said that you go up the tree and down the river, do you do everything, do you remember that you are easy to have scars on your body?" ”

Xue Ke was reminded by her that his wounds have always been very easy to heal, and the recovery is as good as new, when he was a child, his arm was cut by a branch when he was beating dates, and even his mother was worried that there would definitely be a scar, but after the scab, the scab was revealed, and it was more tender and smooth than the original skin, so her mother always said that she had rough skin and thick flesh, and she did not look like a delicate girl at all.

"That's what my sister-in-law said!" Xue Ke looked at Ah Liu and sneered: "Ah Liu, it seems that we have been calculated, I didn't expect that my face was also remembered!" ”

"What are your plans now?" The fairy girl looked at Xue Ke and said, "No matter what your plans are, you have to heal your face first, it's not easy to check these items one by one, it's better for you to go to live with me for a few days first." I still have half a bottle of spring ointment, I originally thought that you were just an ordinary injury, and the East Palace had a panacea, so I didn't bring it over, and in this kind of situation, the spring ointment can still work. ”

Xue Ke shook his head: "Knowing that in this East Palace, in the Baopu Courtyard, there are still people who attack me, where do I still have the heart to go to my sister-in-law!" Xue Ke sneered and said, "I want to see what the origin of this person is, and he can succeed in my Baopu Courtyard!" ”

The fairy aunt was angry and funny, patted Xue Ke's hand and said: "I heard that you take care of the inside and outside of the East Palace well, but this kind of humble and small is a needle, people are in the dark, you are in the light, it is inevitable to be calculated, you don't need to be angry, it is important to heal your face first." ”

Xue Ke nodded: "What my sister-in-law said is true." I can't get angry, I'm just curious. Just to investigate, today ruined my face is a small matter, leaving a bane on a big matter. ”

The fairy girl sighed, looked at Xue Ke, and then reached out to brush the hair from her ear, and said, "This time in the palace, you have been wronged. ”

Xue Ke was sad, looked out the window and was silent, and said for a while: "What are the grievances?" And who is not wronged? ”

The fairy girl gently hugged her and stroked her shoulder.

Yes, in life, a practice, how many people can be satisfied? How long can you do it freely?