The next day, the Imperial Study.

Distraught and reviewing the recital, Pei Gongcuo threw the imperial pen and called Kang Yong to the imperial dining room to ask Guanghan to send some tribute oranges over.

After a while, Guanghan took a plate of oranges and knelt down respectfully under His Highness and said, "The servant Guanghan was ordered to send tribute oranges to His Majesty. ”

Pei Gongcuo has been staring at him since Guanghan entered the hall, only to feel that he is rigorous and respectful today, not at all as quiet and indifferent as that day. He asked casually, "Is Guanghan willing to come to the Heart Cultivation Hall on an errand?" ”

Guanghan was taken aback and raised his head suddenly: "The slave is terrified, the slave is fortunate to be so loved by the emperor in his third life, how dare he say half a word?" The minions are happy. ”

"Oh? Then you will move to the Heart Cultivation Hall today, and I will arrange for others for your job in the Imperial Dining Room. ”

"Thank you, Emperor Longen." Guanghan wanted to kowtow and thank him, but he felt that the tray in his hand was very in the way, and he couldn't take it or put it.

"No need to thank you, just bring the tribute orange and go back to pack up your things."

"Yes."

After Guanghan put down the tribute orange and left, looking at his back, Pei Gongcuo said to Fu Xin thoughtfully: "It was not Guanghan who came to send tribute oranges that day. ”

Fu Xin was taken aback: "Your Majesty, could it be that there are assassins in the palace?" ”

"He doesn't look like an assassin, but like a ......," Pei Gongcuo pondered for a moment and then summoned Kang Yong, who was waiting outside the hall, in, and said, "Where did you meet him when you asked Guanghan to send me tribute oranges that day?" ”

"Back to the emperor, it's in the Yujing Pavilion that is about to arrive at the North Palace Gate."

"I see." Pei Gongcuo couldn't help but carefully recall the scene of that day, and suddenly asked, "Where have all the tribute oranges in the imperial dining room been sent recently?" ”

"I don't know where they went, but I heard that Wantao must go to get some tribute oranges to Shuihua Palace every day."

Pei Gongcuo couldn't help but hook the corners of his lips when he heard this: "It's really you." After eating it once, I remembered my tribute orange, and I was really a little gluttonous cat. ”

"Huh?" Kang Yong was startled and suddenly raised his head, "The emperor is wronged, you just give the slave another guts, and the slave will never dare to covet your things, but the Gongtang slave has not even tasted a bite." ”

"Oh?" Pei Gongcuo couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, and said with some sympathy, "It's really pitiful." Then I will reward you with all this tribute. ”

"Huh?" Kang Yong's mouth opened wide in shock, is the emperor testing the minions?

"Ahhhh I said that I would reward you, so let's take it. ”

Fu Xin has been pondering the emperor's words just now, and he has already figured out a little at this moment that the person who pretended to be Guanghan that day is likely to be the Burmese concubine, and the "little gluttonous cat" in the emperor's mouth is naturally the Burmese concubine. This Kangyong, what is he fooling around here? He picked up the tray and walked to Kang Yong's side and said, "The emperor rewarded you, why don't you thank Lord Longen?" ”

Kang Yong confirmed this time, the emperor was not joking, but really sympathetic to the slave, so he quickly knelt on the ground to thank him.

When Foxit handed the tray to Kang Yong, he whispered in his ear: "Don't eat alone." ”

After Kang Yong stepped down, Pei Gongcuo had no intention of reviewing the recital, and his mind was full of Hua Mian's voice and smile when he pretended to be Guanghan. Thinking about it, she wanted to sneak out of the palace with Guanghan's identity that day, but she didn't expect to be arrested by Kang Yong and come to the Heart Cultivation Palace. Later, she should have felt that Guanghan's identity was not so convenient, so she changed back to her true appearance, but Bi'er saw it and sued her. So she added one more thing to the things she had committed that day. This little woman is really restless.

Pei Gongcuo waited for Guanghan to pack up Lisuo and return to the Heart Cultivation Palace, and called him straight to Shuihua Palace, and ordered Fu Xin to send the music over for review.

Hua Mian didn't expect Pei Gongcuo to break up with him yesterday, and he would come to Shuihua Palace today. However, when she saw Guanghan accompanying her, she couldn't help but be stunned, and immediately secretly shouted "Oops" in her heart, thinking that he was a teacher who was asking for guilt. But she still forced her composure to hide the look on her face.

This subtle change did not escape Pei Gongcuo's eyes, and he said to Hua Mian as if nothing happened: "Guanghan is quick and cautious, and he is very attentive, and he will be my attendant in the future." ”

Without waiting for Hua Mian to respond, Guanghan hurriedly saluted her and said, "The slave Guanghan has seen the noble concubine. ”

"No need to be polite." Hua Mian called Guanghan to get up, and at the same time peeked at Pei Gongcuo, his plain and unwavering expression made her very unpredictable, and she didn't know what medicine he was selling in his gourd.

"Fu Xin, put the fold in the study of the side hall, I have to review it now, don't let people disturb you."

"Yes." Foxit responded.

When passing by Hua Mian's side, Pei Gongcuo whispered in her ear: "When I have something to ask you when I am done, you had better think about how to answer first." Before the words fell, the person had already flown away, and the cold wind gusted, and Hua Mian couldn't help but shiver.

He said that he had something to ask himself, was it what Qiu Tang said yesterday, or did he pretend to be Guanghan? It doesn't seem to be so easy to explain anything. If you don't tell the truth, you are a bully, and if you tell the truth, it is really not like words, even she herself feels that it is chaotic and unreasonable, how can she be clear in three words?

Hua Mian was lying on the soft couch under the phoenix tree with Xueqiu in her arms, and the hair on Xueqiu's body was combed by her to shine brightly. I don't know how long this posture lasted, but suddenly someone whispered in her ear, "What are you thinking, so engrossed?" ”

Hua Mian couldn't help but shudder, and met Pei Gongcuo's eyes full of interest, she looked up at the sky, and then noticed that the sun had sunk into the western sky, and the moon had also risen in the east.

"Why, have you figured out how to answer me?"

Hua Mian sat up and stared at Pei Gongcuo's eyes for a long time, trying to find some clues from them, but finally sighed helplessly, and said stupidly: "I did pretend to be Guanghan that day and wanted to get out of the palace in a foolish way, who knew that I was intercepted by Kang Yong to raise the heart of the palace, I thought that pretending to be someone else would be easy to cause trouble, so I simply took the stolen waist card out of the palace with my true appearance." You know what happened next. ”

Seeing that Pei Gongcuo did not answer, and the expression on his face did not change significantly, Hua Mian couldn't figure out his thoughts, and continued to confess: "Do you want to know why I made a human skin mask?" Well, this is another matter involved. ”

Pei Gongcuo's eyes flashed, and he was a little interested in her words, but he was still silent.

Hua Mian continued: "When I was nine years old, I was poisoned and almost died, but Empress Amaterasu's imperial husband, Ling Yue, saved my life by exchanging blood, but he was poisoned himself, and when he left, he left a booklet detailing how to make a human skin mask. I thought it was very interesting, so I learned it. ”

"Have you been poisoned? Nearly killed? Pei Gongcuo's expression that had been collapsing finally cracked, how could he forget that six years ago, Ji Yunye was angry at the crown and killed Emperor Chengzhao's concubine for Hongyan and posted a notice across the country to find a famous doctor, it turned out that the poisoning almost killed her, and it turned out that the person who saved her turned out to be Ling Yue.

"It's all in the past, Qiu Tang also gave me a cold poison that made people infertile for life, didn't it solve it later? I have noble people to help me, and I am blessed with a great life......"

"What did you say?" Pei Gongcuo's face suddenly showed anger, "You said that woman was so vicious that she gave you cold poison?" Why didn't you say it earlier? If I knew, how could I have spared her so easily? ”

"Am I all right? Later, we went to Yuxue Peak to collect the universal antidote Fire Lotus King, which not only curbed my cold poison, but also cured the poison I had given to Ling Yue. ”

Pei Gongcuo was silent for a long time, as if he was in deep thought, and after a long time, he seemed to have an understanding: "Could this be the reason why Ji Yunye gave Qiu Tang to Liu Chengkun?" ”

"It's not." Hua Mian said a little depressed, "Brother Ye didn't believe that she would poison me at first, and he was ruthless to her, this matter was done by Ling Yue and Kang Muning. There was also love poison involved, and she didn't bother to mention it again.

"Brother Ye?" Pei Gongcuo said coldly, "You are still so intimate until now." ”

Hua Mian felt that he was a little inexplicable, he was already his now, and even the child was pregnant for him, he even cared about a title, and couldn't help blurting out: "It's been called a habit for so many years, and you can't change it, if you really can't accept it, don't come to touch the mold." ”

"What did you say?" Pei Gongcuo's eyes suddenly dimmed, and his voice was a little colder, "You mean to say that you don't welcome me to Shuihua Palace?" ”

Hua Mian's eyes flashed, and her small mouth opened her mouth, but she was finally noncommittal.

Pei Gongcuo's heart ached, and said, "Myanmar, how can your heart be so cold and hard? Isn't it that I haven't done enough, that I am not as good as them, that they can do nothing for you, and they don't even want their lives, that's why you despise me so much for your kindness? ”

Hua Mian was stunned, they? Didn't he even eat Ling Yue and Kang Muning's vinegar together? Seeing that he looked very hurt, she couldn't bear to say, "You misunderstood." ”

"Isn't it?" Pei Gongcuo sneered, "Let's not talk about Ji Yunye, even what Ling Yue and Kang Muning have done for you has exceeded ordinary people's thoughts. What am I worth? ”

"Not what you think." Hua Mian wanted to tell him that Ling Yue was her relative, Kang Muning was her friend, she had nothing to do with them, and she had never despised him. However, the words came to his lips and he spun around and swallowed again. If you can't completely surrender your body and mind to him, what's the use of talking about it?

Looking at Hua Mian's tangled expression, Pei Gongcuo only felt that she was pathetic and ridiculous, she didn't even bother to explain to herself, she still expected to warm her heart. At this moment, he suddenly felt a deep sense of frustration.

Eventually, he gave her a wistful look and walked away.

Looking at his bleak back gradually fading out of his sight, Hua Mian suddenly had a feeling of emptiness in his heart.