Li Fu trotted to the bamboo courtyard, but saw palace maids and eunuchs standing in the courtyard, but the door of the inner hall was closed.

Ping'er has good eyesight, and when she saw him, she hurriedly came over to say goodbye.

Li Fu was still able to put on a shelf in the face of these small palace people, so he glanced at the door with the corner of his eye and asked, "Isn't Niang Niang back?" What are you doing when you go in and serve, and you all stand outside? ”

Ping'er heard what Lan Xin and Zhuang Siyan said just now, but how dare she say this kind of thing casually?

As soon as she had an idea, she told a little lie: "Niangniang is changing clothes inside, Sister Lan Xin is serving, and we are waiting outside for the time being." ”

Come on, Concubine Wan was changing clothes, and Li Fu couldn't go in, so he had to wait outside.

However, Ping'er still quietly walked to the door, knocked twice, and then passed the word: "Niangniang, Manager Li is here." ”

Zhuang Siyan glared at Lan Xin's sharp gaze and retracted it, and said casually: "Think about it yourself, if you still want to follow me, it's best to tell me the truth, if you don't tell the truth, you will go out of the palace and live the life you should live, and our master-servant relationship will end here." ”

She sat down and smoothed her clothes, and said outside, "Come in." ”

Li Fu immediately cleaned up the shelf that was still serving just now, and entered the palace gate in small steps, and when he saw Zhuang Siyan out of the corner of his eye, he saluted her first.

According to etiquette, he is Ling Tiancheng's palace man, and he is also the chief eunuch of the inner house, his status is higher than others, and ordinary concubines have to take the initiative to salute when they see him, and there are not many people like Zhuang Siyan who sit still.

Of course, there are a lot, in addition to the emperor's favor for her, Li Fu can't afford to offend, and she has never been enthusiastic about those positions in the palace.

A person who has nothing to ask for, she is also fearless, so she dared to beat Li Fu from the beginning, and she also dared to hold the concubine's frame in front of him.

However, Li Fu also ate this set, except for Ling Tiancheng, he only groveled in front of Zhuang Siyan.

And Li Fu could still pretend to be sincere, his face was almost a chrysanthemum with a smile, and he said in a voice: "Concubine Wanniang, the emperor heard that you are back, send the old slave to see if there is anything missing here, so that the Internal Affairs Office can make up for it in time." The emperor was busy with the affairs of the court in the Zichen Palace at this time, and he couldn't leave for a while, saying that he would come to see you later. ”

Li Fu made an appointment with Ling Tiancheng on his own initiative.

This is also well thought out, although he comes to improve his son and walks fast, his brain turns faster than his feet.

Looking at the emperor's appearance, he obviously wanted to come to see Concubine Wan, but for some reason he didn't come, judging from his face, it seemed that the two of them had quarreled.

But Li Fu judged based on his past experience that this kind of quarrel would not last long at all, so maybe Ling Tiancheng would come to see Concubine Wan in a while.

That Concubine Wan, since she is here, she has to say something nice, so as to pave the way for the emperor.

He was very proud of his little idea, but heard Zhuang Siyan say: "Oh, I don't know what is missing here, I didn't just come back, you go and ask Ping'er, register a list, and send some if you can, anyway, I have always been more and better." As for the emperor, if he is busy, he will be busy, there is no need to deliberately come to the bamboo courtyard, anyway, I am used to going in and out. ”

Li Fu was quite happy when he said this.

Under normal circumstances, Zhuang Siyan entered the palace to ask for something, which should be a precursor to staying for a while.

How good is this, and it also relieves the pain of the emperor's thoughts.

So Li Fu, who received the work, was busy looking for Ping'er, and as soon as the two of them put it together, they made a long list and handed it to the Internal Affairs Office.

Ling Tiancheng here, waiting left and right, had already walked from behind the table to the edge of the corridor before watching Li Fu come back with small steps.

He was full of anger, but he still had to suppress it, and looked at him quietly.

Li Fu hurriedly stepped forward to report: "Your Majesty, Wan Niang has a bit of a shortage of things, so I stayed with her for a while, and now I have handed the list to the Internal Affairs Office, and I will send it over soon." ”

Ling Tiancheng let out a "hmm", wanting to ask him something, swallowed the words again, turned around and walked inside.

Li Fu didn't know what to say, about whether the concubine was fat or thin, happy or unhappy, he as a eunuch couldn't describe it, even if the emperor wanted to know.

What he said was shallow, it was useless to scratch the boots, and if he said it deeply, maybe the emperor would suspect that he was in the middle of his mind and check his concubine.

Li Fu looks stupid, but he also has a lot of eyes, otherwise how could he mix around Ling Tiancheng?

In this way, their master and servant also had their own thoughts in the Zichen Palace, sitting without thoughts, and standing with thoughts full of thoughts.

Ling Tiancheng couldn't sit still, got up and said, "I'm tired, go back to the Xuan Palace." ”

Li Fu accompanied him, and he didn't dare to learn Zhuang Siyan's words to him.

But the Xuan Hall is more deserted than the Zichen Palace.

In the past, when Zhuang Siyan lived here, the most comfortable thing for Ling Tiancheng every day was to return to the Xuan Palace.

No matter how tired he was, as long as he came back here, he felt that the fatigue was gone in an instant, and only that person's eyebrows and eyes were the same, and his smile was like a flower.

But now that she no longer lives here, Ling Tiancheng's Xuan Hall is colder than before.

Even Chenxi Hall was cold.

Since the last time he came back from Luohe City, he changed his study to Zichen Hall according to the rules of the emperors of previous dynasties.

As soon as I came there, there was no concubine to disturb me, and I could see the courtiers at any time.

Second, and most importantly, there is not much of Zhuang Siyan's breath in Zichen Palace, and there is no memory about her.

Ling Tiancheng is here, he can really do things without distractions, but not there, in a trance, he will feel that on the ground of the side hall, there will be that little woman sitting on the ground, reading the case file and falling asleep.

It wasn't a great experience and it annoyed him.

I sat in the Xuan Hall for a while, and asked Li Fu to bring a pot of wine, which was not a taste in my throat, but it was better than sitting stupidly, so I drank it one after another.

When it was time for dinner, the imperial dining room brought all the food from each palace.

Ling Tiancheng looked at the things on the table, and there was no taste at all.

He especially wanted to ignore it, get up and go to the bamboo courtyard, as before, no matter what happened to the little woman, just imprison her to himself.

But when he thought of her slightly cool, indifferent eyes, Ling Tiancheng felt extremely hurt.

He is the king of a country, how many women are waiting for him to pamper him, but he loves that woman so hard.

If he can't pass this level, what can he do in the future?

He secretly gave himself a goal, either Zhuang Siyan surrendered to him, fell in love with him, and listened to him in the future.

Either let go of it yourself and give her back her freedom, and return her freedom.

It's just that this degree is really difficult to grasp, she was not in the capital before, Ling Tiancheng could still hold on, not write to her, nor pay attention to her news, and kept hinting that he would deal with more important things at the moment.

But now that she is back, she is in the palace, only a little distance from him, and as long as he walks out of the palace gate, he may be able to see the face of his dreams.

It's too hard.

Ling Tiancheng drank all the wine in his hand, and when he got up, he was a little dizzy.

Probably because he is in a bad mood, so it is easy to drink, and he usually drinks three times the amount, and it may not be what will happen.

With that in mind, he walked straight outside.

As soon as I stepped out of the temple gate, I saw a woman standing in the dim lamp.

She didn't wear complicated palace clothes, only a simple dress, and her hair was only loosely combed in a bun, and she was casually tied behind her with a hosta.

The whole body is comfortable and refreshing after just bathing, and it is refreshing to look at it by doing nothing, just standing there.

Ling Tiancheng's gaze couldn't move for a long time, just kept looking at her, kept watching, wanting to see himself and her as a painting, staying at this moment forever.

However, Zhuang Siyan moved first, she took a few steps forward, stood still at the foot of the steps two meters away from Ling Tiancheng, and said with a slight upward face: "Gonggong Li said that you are too busy and have no time to come to the bamboo courtyard, so I have to come here to look for you, but I don't see what you are busy with, the smell of wine is very strong, why don't you look for me when you drink?" ”

Ling Tiancheng: "......"

Gritting his teeth, he still said insincerely: "I am a little busy today, and I spilled some wine just now, but I didn't drink it." ”

"Do you want to drink dry if you haven't drunk it? Wine field? ”

Ling Tiancheng: "......"

He was a little speechless, and simply changed the subject: "What are you looking for?" ”

He originally thought that Zhuang Siyan would come and stand next to him as he did in the past, or hold his arm like he did in Luohecheng.

Say something casually, in fact, Ling Tiancheng doesn't care.

The moment he saw Zhuang Siyan, the whole bunch of reasons he was looking for had collapsed and had no meaning.

At this point, he just wanted to hear what she was saying, and then stand a little closer to him, a little closer.

But Zhuang Siyan did not walk up the steps as he wished, nor did he salute him, nor was he polite, nor close.

After a pause, he said, "I came back for Wen Qing's matter, what's wrong with him?" ”

This turn was a bit big, and Ling Tiancheng's body shook for a moment, almost not standing still.

He blamed himself for drinking a little more wine at night, why did he look like he was about to pour when the wind blew.

In fact, when he heard that Zhuang Siyan came back, he thought that she might ask about Wen Qing, after all, they have always been in contact, and Mi Yueqing is also in Luohe City.

But what he didn't expect was that she came back for this.

I only came back for this.

Ling Tiancheng didn't respond, and his feet moved back half a step.

Probably because his face was really ugly, so Zhuang Siyan asked below: "What's wrong, are you uncomfortable?" ”

Ling Tiancheng said in his heart: "No, I'm fine, you can go." ”

He didn't say anything, but his body was very honest, so he really turned around and walked towards the inner hall, and left Zhuang Siyan there.

This is the first cold reception she has encountered since entering the palace, and it is not shocking.

Zhuang Siyan couldn't believe it, she watched Ling Tiancheng turn around and leave, saying a word, not even looking at him more.

An indescribable sense of loss suddenly rose in my heart.

Did you really let it go? Do you really not like yourself? Is it really because of Concubine Xian's affairs that he showed a little jealousy, and then he got angry?

But he obviously didn't say that before!