It was night, and a long figure stood in front of the window in the study.

He is in a high position and is full of dangers, and he has just experienced being poisoned, so he is more and more careful and cautious before employing people. It stands to reason that Yun Xi is a palace maid sent by Queen Tong, and in the past, he would not have done this again and investigated her without fear. Fortunately, Wu Yi found her out, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable.

As the commander of his secret guard, Wuyi is far more powerful than ordinary people, but he is also a mortal, and he can only find out Yunxi's true background, but it is difficult to find out the master who instructed her behind the scenes. It can be seen that the people behind the scenes are like a pool of deep water, and they can't explore the depth at all.

Will it be Yuwencheng?

Yu Wenye didn't think that the reckless and conceited Yu Wencheng could have such scheming.

Anyway, it will definitely not be the Empress Dowager Xiao or the Xiao family, because in their plan, the Empress Dowager Xiao will die, and then they can stir up the storm.

If it weren't for these two factions and his old enemies, it would mean that there was still a force in the secret that wanted to influence the government. That's something even more terrifying.

At dawn the next day, when Xiao Guizi came in to serve him to wash, he found that Yu Wenye was still standing in front of the window, and was startled: "Your Highness, haven't you slept all night?" ”

Yu Wenye turned around when he heard this, his straight and straight posture was like a pine and cypress, and he pursed his lips and said nothing.

He thought about it all night, and he could probably identify a few suspicions in his mind.

At this time, Wang Quan walked in and said: "Your Highness, Mama Song said that she tortured Yunxi last night, and she still refused to say it after tossing all night." ”

Yun Xi looked at the delicate little girl, but she didn't expect that the bones were very hard, and she was beaten so that her skin was open and her flesh was full of blood, but she still clenched her teeth and didn't open her mouth.

Yu Wenye instructed lightly: "Don't worry, you don't have to worry about Mama Song." ”

Mama Song is Yu Wenye's nurse and has won his trust. On weekdays, Mama Song is not smiling, she has been in the palace for many years, and all the eighteen criminal laws have been arrested, but no one who has been handed over to her for interrogation has not confessed. handed over Yunxi to her yesterday, she was somewhat afraid that Yunxi was sent by Queen Tong, and she might not dare to move the real thing.

The king understood and hurriedly responded.

After Wang Quan left, Xiao Guizi asked tentatively: "Your Highness, do you have breakfast first?" ”

Yu Wenye nodded slightly.

There is a plum blossom forest in the back garden of the East Palace, it is now November, the plum blossoms have not yet bloomed, and the flower bones on the branches are already eager to try. The sun is shining today, and after lunch, Yu Wenye and Bai Muguan walked hand in hand in the plum blossom forest.

"Wait for two more months for the plum blossoms to bloom, and the fragrance will be fragrant. In particular, green plums are rare, and there are not as many green plums in the Imperial Garden as I am, so you can feast your eyes on them this year. ”

Yu Wenye looked at the girl with a face full of hope on his side, and his heart swelled with a sense of satisfaction like a beautiful flower on his side. This feeling he had never felt before he met Bai Muguan, as if he had never longed for the happiness of being accompanied by a beautiful lady. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but pull the corners of his mouth higher. As for the dozens of acres of plum forest, he really likes flowers and plants, and prefers plum blossoms, and a few years ago he sent people to search for strange flowers and plants in various places.

On the contrary, Bai Muguan has lived in Mobei for a long time, and in the Gobi Desert with poor soil, flowers and plants are indeed rare. In the past six months of living in the East Palace, she has already seen a hundred colorful flowers blooming. Winter plum blossoms also grow in Mobei Aoxue Lingshuang, but the varieties are not as complete as in Beijing.

"That's good." The girl inadvertently chuckled and muttered two words.

"Good what?" Yu Wenye wasn't sure what she was referring to.

Bai Muguan replied without thinking: "The plum blossoms in the garden must be very beautiful, it's really good." ”

Yu Wenye was slightly stunned, and subconsciously pressed the corners of his mouth upward, showing a little disappointment between his eyebrows. He thought she would say that it was nice for them to work hand in hand like this.

"Why, the goodness in our hearts is different?" Knowingly asked, it was clear that she had seen through his thoughts, and the girl deliberately teased him.

Hearing this, Yu Wenye pretended to sink his handsome face, and reached out to pinch her delicate and small nose, which was regarded as a punishment for her.

The two of them laughed and frolicked for a while, and Yu Wenye suddenly asked casually: "Guanguan, do you know how to touch the qin?" ”

"I don't know the rhythm." Bai Muguan saw a little imperceptible disappointment flashing in his eyes, and said with a smile, "My sister is proficient in music and rhythm, and she is good at playing the piano. ”

I didn't expect him to say bluntly: "It has nothing to do with me." ”

Bai Muguan also had no smile on his face, no matter what, Ye Shiying was the concubine he was marrying, wouldn't he look so indifferent and detached? Even bordering on coldness.

Yu Wenye stopped, turned around and held her shoulders with both hands, his expression was serious but he couldn't suppress the deep affection stirring in his chest: "Guanguan, your cousin is not the love of my heart, although I was forced by the emperor to marry her as the crown princess, but I can only give her a title for the rest of my life." In this life, I just want to marry you. ”

His words came from the bottom of his heart, and the lines of his handsome face, which looked like carvings, softened a lot, and his eyes were full of affection and doting on her alone.

Bai Muguan's heartstrings trembled, his eyes were turbulent, but he frowned and said, "Brother Ye, no matter what our future holds, I hope you can treat my sister well." His Majesty's decree once gave marriage, and my sister is also an innocent person. ”

In the final analysis, she is sorry for Ye Shiying.

Yu Wenye didn't think about it, nodded and agreed: "Okay, I will preserve her honor." "But that's all I can do. He couldn't help but say the second half of the sentence, no matter how good he was at hiding his emotions, he would occasionally lose his sense of proportion when he stood in front of the person he liked.

Seeing that his expression was not quite right, Bai Muguan took the opportunity to open the topic, and his voice was deliberately lowered: "Do you believe the result of Yunxi's confession?" ”

This morning, Mama Song got the order, no longer hesitated, and quickly came up with a killer idea. ordered someone to forcibly pour Yun Xi with a poison developed by the East Palace, and after taking it, he was itching all over his body, as if there were ten thousand ant bites. It's painful, and it's no exaggeration to say that it's like falling into hell, and it's hard for anyone who hasn't tried it to imagine.

Yun Xi worked hard for two hours, couldn't bear it anymore, and finally opened his mouth to confess a name.

"Yuwen Cheng has a vicious mind, saying that he does anything evil, I don't suspect that it is fake." Yu Wenye's expression was indifferent, and his eyes were a little misty.

Hearing his reply, Bai Muguan pursed his lips unhappily: "I hate it so much, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince even hid it from me." ”

Yu Wenye grabbed the sullen girl with his hand, bent down and whispered in her ear: "I have no choice but to check it in person, there should be a result in a few days, and I will tell you when the time comes." ”

"Okay." Bai Muwan realized, he had doubts in his heart.

"You've been out for a long time, are you tired?" Although he asked her, it was obvious that he was himself showing fatigue.

Bai Muguan smiled and said softly: "I'm not tired, but the residual poison in your body is not clear, so let's go back after a long time." ”

"I haven't touched the piano for a long time, I'm itchy today, can you dance the sword later?" In front of her, Yu Wenye tried to use a consultative tone instead of a condescending order.

The girl winked playfully and responded: "The lower official obeys." ”

So they didn't go back to the study, and the two moved to Qingyun Pavilion together.

Standing in front of the sandalwood bookshelf full of books, Yu Wenye couldn't help but think of the scene when he was a teenager when he was studying hard with candles, and couldn't help but ask with emotion: "There are a lot of books here, whether it is a biography of wild history or the historiography of the art of war, you have lived for half a year, how many have you read?" ”

Bai Muguan tilted his head and thought for a moment, then replied with a smile: "It's just more than ten copies." ”

In fact, she prefers to read books and is very fast, and she has read most of the books here, and she has read almost ten books.

He nodded, and then sighed to himself: "Li Chen said that he would detoxify me for two months, and my father was very compassionate, and he didn't even send a single official document these days. It's rare to be so relaxed. As he spoke, he had already walked to the side of the table and sat down, and his guqin was placed upright on the pear blossom wood table, which was not wide or narrow. Lifting the brocade that blocked the dust and dust, Yu Wenye's eyes flashed with complicated emotions.

He was usually busy with the affairs of the imperial court for many days and had never played the qin, so it was inevitable that he had some hands, and it took a while to adjust the rhythm. When he raised his head leisurely, he found that the girl in front of him had quietly changed her outfit.

At this moment, Bai Muguan was wearing a beige uniform, a jade belt tied to his willow waist, holding a sword in his hand, and standing quietly in front of him.

Confident and full of laughter.

He also smiled at the corner of his mouth, and called emotionally: "Guanguan." ”

The girl smiled and responded, "Your Highness, please start." ”

Just look at each other, and gradually a tacit understanding has been formed.

His slender fingertips touched the strings, and the sound of the piano sounded, and almost at the same time she drew her sword from its sheath.

I thought he would play some tunes about mountains and rivers meeting bosom friends, but today he actually played a tactful and soft tune, as gentle and delicate as a spring breeze.

Bai Muguan wanted to play some sharp moves, but listening to his soft piano sound, he couldn't help but slowly soften the force in his hand, turn his wrist lightly, tap his toes, and spin up. The whole person is like being in a painting, and the sword dance is dancing, just like the beautiful dance in the world.

He let his fingers flutter flexibly on the strings, and from time to time he smiled and glanced at the beautiful girl. Whenever he looked at her, there seemed to be a thousand stars in his eyes.

The sound of the piano is slow, and the rhyme is natural.

The beauty dances the sword, and the elegance is peerless.

At the end of the song, he got up gently, with a shallow smile on his lips, and hugged her from behind.

Bai Muguan raised her head sideways to look at him, but they didn't say anything to each other, and her face was already red.

Leaning on his arms, Bai Muguan smiled brightly: "Brother Ye's song is so good, I don't know what it's called?" ”

"Nameless." He raised his eyebrows and smiled, and said with great interest, "You should choose the name of the music I composed for you." ”

The girl thought for a moment, then turned her eyes and asked him: "This song is soft and delicate like a wet apricot blossom rain, and the wind blows the willows without cold, why don't you call it apricot rain willows?" ”

Yu Wenye smiled even deeper, and nodded in agreement: "Very good." ”

The smile on Bai Muguan's face became stronger, and her eyes inadvertently fell on the hand he wrapped around her waist, and she couldn't help but say coquettishly: "Your Highness, let go of me!" ”

Yu Wenye let go of her according to her words, raised her thin lips and sighed sincerely: "If you talk about superb piano skills, I am far inferior to King Xu." ”

"His Royal Highness King Xu?" Bai Muguan's mind vaguely recalled a white and chubby boy with a tiger brain.

"King Xu is both my cousin and cousin, and his mother is my mother's sister, so we are like brothers." Referring to Yuwen Yuanxuan, the king of Xu, who is a hundred times better than his own brother, Yuwen Ye said eloquently, "Uncle Xu Wang died young, and there was only one child under his knees, Brother Xuan, and the queen mother took pity on their orphans and widows, and often ordered someone to take them into the palace to live. Two years ago, when Brother Xuan turned seventeen, his father decreed that he should be knighted. He is very much like Uncle Wang's temperament, he loves to caress the piano or splash ink the most on weekdays, and he has no ambition to be an idle prince with peace of mind. ”

Bai Muguan smiled slightly after hearing this: "In this way, Brother Ye and His Royal Highness King Xu have a deep affection, but your poisoning this time has disturbed the whole city, why didn't you see His Royal Highness King Xu come to visit?" ”

Seeing her incomprehensible suspicions, Yu Wenye couldn't help laughing, and patiently explained: "A few days before you came to the capital, this kid asked his father for the beauty of inspecting Yanzhou, and he didn't go crazy enough for half a year and refused to come back. ”

"I see."

Bai Muguan could see that for this King Xu, Yu Wenye's eyes were full of trust and love, which was completely different from treating his own brothers. It's not surprising when I think about it, King Xu is a child of the clan, as long as he doesn't have undesirable ambitions, he can naturally spend the rest of his life as a rich and noble prince. Unlike the princes, they may threaten Yu Wenye's throne at any time and replace him.

Yu Wenye said again: "Guanguan, when Brother Xuan returns to the capital, I will definitely show him this song composed for you, Xingyu Yangliu, and by the way, I will convince him." ”

Bai Muguan smiled and nodded, before she could answer, she saw the little nobleman hurriedly come in and say, "Your Highness, Prince Sheng and the princess have come to visit the patient, and they are now waiting in the front hall." ”

"Guanguan, you go with me."

The girl was stunned: "I'm afraid this is not in accordance with the rules, right?" ”

She knew very well that this kind of scene was reasonable, and Yu Wenye should be accompanied by the crown princess Ye Shiying to entertain guests, and it was obviously unetiquette for her to go with him, and even recklessly.

"The crown princess is sick and inconvenient to entertain." Yu Wenye's eyes flickered, and he paused and said, "Guanguan is the four-grade general of my father's imperial pen Zhu Pi, and Prince Sheng and his wife came to the door, how can you not go to visit." ”

"It's fine."

Bai Muguan admitted that he had a point, and besides, he said so resolutely, she couldn't brush him off.

"Changing clothes is free." After that, Yu Wenye picked her up disapprenorovingly and walked out, and Xiao Guizi hurriedly lowered his head to follow.