On the day Chu Huai slowly returned to the imperial city, the sun was exceptionally warm.

It had been a long time since there had been such a warm day in winter in the imperial city, as if spring had arrived.

"I knew I should have taken a nap at the owner's house and then came back." Chu Huai sat in the swaying carriage with his chin propped up, looking at the sunlight outside the window, his face slowly full of sleepiness.

"Lord Chu Gu, it's already spring." Xiaozhi suddenly came to such a sentence without a head.

"Xiaozhi, when did you memorize the mind reading technique I learned?" Chu Huai yawned lazily, narrowing his eyes slightly and closing them.

"I didn't learn to read minds, but the expression on your face reads: Why is it already so warm in winter?"

"Is it that obvious?" Chu Huai rubbed his face weakly, feeling so sleepy that he couldn't control his expression!

"Valley master, if you are really sleepy, just sleep in the carriage for a while, and when you get to the house, I will call you up."

"That's not good, if someone shouts at you when you're sleeping comfortably, how uncomfortable it will be! If I want to sleep, I'll have to wait until I'm back in the house to sleep comfortably in the sun for a few hours. ”

"But, Lord Valley, in another hour and a half, the sun will be cold, and if you sleep outside, you will catch a cold, after all, it is not yet summer."

"Xiaozhi, you are too serious, I am just making an analogy, if you want to sleep, you naturally have to sleep in a mattress that has absorbed the sunshine all day, this is called enjoyment." Chu Huai narrowed his eyes, already looking intoxicated, "I just hope that no one will disturb me today." ”

Xiao Zhi added oil and vinegar outside the carriage and said, "Valley Lord, the more you pray like this, the easier it will be to achieve it in the opposite direction!" ”

"Bah, how is that possible, who taught you this? Why don't you learn something good every day? ”

"Naturally, Miss taught me!"

"Really, it's not good for the mandarin duck to teach you, but I want to teach you how to go against me!"

"Because the young lady said that it was very interesting, I felt it, and it was indeed quite interesting." Twigs laughed a little louder outside the carriage.

"Okay, okay, don't laugh, hurry back, the carriage is dying slowly!"

"Valley master, you can't drive a carriage so fast on the street."

"Oops! You're noisy! ”

Since the mandarin duck has been with him for a long time, Chu Huai found that the current mandarin duck really likes to disagree with him more and more, looking at her smile after every success, he can't help but think that she is revenge for finding her in the general's mansion at that time and saying to her "because of fun", right?

I thought that Mandarin Duck would be a person who was as knowledgeable, gentle and virtuous, and noble as the rumors, but I really didn't expect that after being in contact with her for a long time, these would just become superficial phenomena.

No wonder the emperor doesn't want her! Chu Huai thought indignantly in his heart.

Xiaozhi turned his head frequently with interest, looked at Chu Huai in the carriage and nodded and shook his head, covered his mouth, and couldn't stop laughing.

The valley lord seems to be lazy, and he doesn't look very smart.

The carriage finally drove into a small alley when Chu Huai was about to lose his sleep.

"Valley Master, if you hold on a little longer, it's coming soon."

"I'm holding on, you can hurry!" Chu Huai's head shook along with the small stones that the carriage had stepped on. I just had to stumble on the wooden board on the side.

Finally, after Chu Huai was bored for a while, the carriage slowly stopped.

"Valley master, go to the ......" house.

Before Xiaozhi finished speaking, he felt a gust of wind blowing from behind him, and looked into the curtain of the carriage that was blown, where was Chu Huai's figure sitting in the carriage.

Yu Guang caught a glimpse of a black figure standing on the wall, but when he took a closer look, where was there any black figure, Chu Huai had already lost his luck and ran back to his room.

"The valley lord is really anxious...... Xiao Zhi shook his head with a smile, and slowly parked the carriage into the stable.

Chu Huai kicked the door open, and didn't bother to close the door again, so he threw himself directly on the bed, holding the quilt that was warmed by the subordinate, Chu Huai rolled on the bed with satisfaction, and then fell asleep.

After settling the carriage, Xiaozhi walked lightly to Chu Huai's room and closed the door for him.

It's been a long time since the valley lord has had a good rest like this.

......

At this moment, the mandarin duck who was also lying on the bed felt a little idle, and Xia Yuan and Wen Mu spent almost every day on finding Xia Ling when they had free time.

After Xia Yuan knew that he could leave Mandarin Duck for a few days and would not let the pain recur, he took her with him everywhere he went.

It was as if now, she was left alone in the dormitory, and Xia Yuan and Wen Mu had long since lost their sights, and they could not be found in the entire palace. Even if you ask other palace maids, the only answer you can get is that you don't know.

The mandarin duck looked at the unchanged roof beams, sighed heavily, and sat up from the bed, "Why don't you go and play with Master and Xiaozhi?" I don't know if they've come back from Liuhe Town. ”

Thinking about it, the mandarin duck had already walked out of the dormitory, this time, she didn't want to continue to climb over the wall, so she simply walked directly to the side door of the palace.

"Imperial Princess!" The guard who saw her from afar quickly straightened up and saluted her.

But as she approached, he crossed two spears and blocked her path.

"What are you doing here?"

"Imperial Princess, are you going out?"

"yes, I want to go out on the streets, and you won't let me out?"

"It's not that you won't be allowed to go out, it's just that the emperor has an order, if the imperial concubine wants to go out, she must bring the shadow guard with her."

"So troublesome?" The mandarin duck frowned, if Xia Yuan knew that he often went to find Chu Huai, he would definitely question whether he really had amnesia, "Forget it, I'd better go back and rest." ”

"The princess walks slowly."

It's just that the mandarin duck didn't walk back to the dormitory, but walked to the corner where he most often turned out of the palace before. Sure enough, it was still the same as before, and no one passed by.

After climbing over the wall so many times since he was a child, the mandarin duck can completely climb over the wall lightly without the help of any stepping things.

Sure enough, you shouldn't go through the side door, and it's easy to attract the attention of the guards!

Mandarin duck once again walked on the streets of the imperial city, no matter how many years have passed, it is still as lively as ever, if she can, she really wants to forget all love and hatred, just be an ordinary person, drowned in the crowd.

It's a pity that there is never a if in this world.

"This girl, you look like an old man in the next place." A young man with a folding fan blocked the mandarin duck's path.

The mandarin duck raised his head when he heard the sound, and the person in front of him looked a little familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen this person anyway, so he simply didn't continue to think about it, "This son, I'm afraid you recognize the wrong person." ”

"Is there a brother named Xu Yuan in the girl's family?"

Xu Yuan? The mandarin duck frowned, why is this name so familiar?

"There is no brother in the family, only one sister."

"Then it seems that I really recognized the wrong person, my surname is Zhang, and my single name is Shen, I don't know if I can know the girl's name?"

"I'm sorry, Mr. Zhang." The mandarin duck showed an apologetic smile towards Zhang Shen, "I'm already married, and my husband doesn't allow me to tell my name to others." ”

"That's a shame." Zhang Shen shook his fan and looked at the back of the mandarin duck walking away, "Such a good-looking girl, I don't know which family is cheaper." ”

The mandarin duck walked away from the street quickly, and she finally remembered why she felt familiar, wasn't that person the same person she met when she was dressed as a man in the teahouse? How did he change from a grumpy boy to a handsome boy in a blink of an eye?

At that time, the name on the newspaper was the word Xu Yuan that he took casually. She thought that those people had forgotten her, but she didn't expect that she would be almost recognized on the street on this day.

Fortunately, he didn't show his true face at the beginning, otherwise if he was really recognized, then the trouble would not be a little bit or two!

The mandarin duck rested against the wall for a while, and when he saw that Zhang Shen did not want to continue to entangle his posture, he calmed down and walked into the alley again.

It's just that I didn't walk a few steps, and I could see the gate of Chu Mansion from a distance.

For some reason, she had a hunch that Chu Huai was in the mansion at the moment.

The mandarin duck ran to the door, pushed the door, and it was not locked, she crossed the threshold and walked in gently, but happened to run into a small branch carrying medicinal herbs walking by.

"Ah, miss, why are you back?"

"After staying in the palace for a long time, I was a little breathable, so I came out for a walk, at first I thought of coming over to see if you had come back, but when I pushed the door, it was not locked."

"I guessed that Miss would come today, so I didn't lock it."

"Where's Master?" The mandarin duck looked left and right, but he didn't see Chu Huai's figure, on weekdays, he would definitely come out to greet him when he heard the sound of himself coming in.

"Lord Chu Gu is asleep in the house, and when he came back today, he said that he didn't want anyone to disturb his sleep." Xiaozhi covered his mouth and smiled, it seems that the valley master has no way to sleep until he wakes up naturally today.

"Why is Master sleeping at this time?" As soon as the mandarin duck heard that Chu Huai was sleeping, he consciously wanted to go to his room, and Xiaozhi no longer cared about the medicinal materials in his hand, and followed the mandarin duck to Chu Huai's room.

"The valley master is such a person, seeing that the weather is good today, he wants to take a good nap, after all, he is busy with your affairs these days, and he hasn't slept well at night. After you returned to the palace, the valley lord went to Huaihua Valley overnight to arrange the affairs of the little prince, and only returned to the imperial city today. ”

Listening to Xiaozhi's words, the mandarin duck stopped, turned to him and said, "Master has worked so hard, shouldn't we disturb him to rest?" ”

"But the valley master, he's already awake." Xiaozhi tilted his head and pointed behind the mandarin duck.

As soon as the mandarin duck turned around, it was Chu Huai's face full of anger, "Master, are you sleeping well?" Am I too late to come? ”

"I just said why I was so uncomfortable to sleep, and there was someone talking in my ear in my dream, and sure enough, it was because you came."

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