He looked up and saw the person behind Zhao Xiangling, and suddenly paused, frowning and displeased.

Li Ruiqing was also displeased.

He took a step forward, walked to Zhao Xiangling's side, and arched his hand at the comer: "Long time no see, Sun Siye." ”

Sun Siye, whose name is Sun Shen, has no words. His father is Sun Yan, the head of the household, and his mother is the third queen of Wang Youxiang, Chengchun.

He is only one year older than Zhao Xiangling, and he has already held an important position in the Guozijian industry, although he has a family background, his personal methods must not be ignored.

Sun Wunian raised his hand and clenched his fists, and his displeasure immediately dispersed. He squinted a pair of peach blossom eyes and said with a smile: "It turned out to be Lord Zuo Xiang, and he was rude." ”

The eyes exchanged sparks between the two, and Zhao Xiangling, who was standing on the side, looked at it and sighed heavily: "Why did I forget, it's better not to stand together with these two rivals." ”

Although there should be no intersection between Zuo and the same business, Li Ruiqing also served as the Guozi Priest for half a year before serving as Zuo Xiang, when Sun Wunian was still a petty official. It was these six months that made none of them look down on anyone. When they stand together, there will be trouble.

The two of them stood aside and watched for a long time without deciding a winner, Sun Wunian raised his hand and pulled Zhao Xiangling, put one hand on her shoulder, and asked sideways, "Why did you come with this old guy?" ”

The voice was not small, and he didn't deliberately let Li Ruiqing hear it. In other words, he deliberately wanted Li Ruiqing to hear.

Zhao Xiangling didn't speak, but Sun Wunian remembered something. He glanced at Li Ruiqing, then at Zhao Xiangling, saw the similar clothes on the two of them, and remembered that the left minister should be in the south to see the locusts at this moment, and suddenly realized.

His eyes narrowed even more, and Sun Wunian pressed Zhao Xiangling's shoulder and sneered, "I see." The national teacher who brought disaster to the country and the people was actually the left minister. ”

Zhao Xiangling's face changed when she heard this, and she pushed Sun Wunian away: "Where did you hear this rumor?" ”

Sun Wunian listened to her sharp voice, knowing that she didn't want this matter to leak the news, he sighed inaudibly, and said with a smile: "That's it, you're always so willful, come in, come in, what is Zuo Xiang doing standing there?" Don't worry, I won't tell anyone about you being a national teacher. ”

Zhao Xiangling wasn't really angry, and said with a smile: "I know you." I've been so bored in the palace lately, so I thought I'd come here for a walk. ”

"You." Sun Wunian smiled, "You haven't changed." I counted the time that you would come, and ordered someone to prepare a snack early, just waiting for you, do you want them to bring it up? ”

"Okay." Zhao Xiangling smiled.

The two sat together, bowing their heads and whispering, as if no one was around, Li Ruiqing, who was left out in the cold, tasted the cold for the first time.

He looked at Sun Wunian's hand on Zhao Xiangling's shoulder, coughed lightly, and said slowly: "Your Majesty, pay attention to your manners." ”

Zhao Xiangling raised his head, ignorant, completely unaware of how he lost his manners.

However, Sun Wunian looked at Li Ruiqing staring at his hand and understood what was going on.

He smiled, turned his head sideways and said to Zhao Xiangling: "Zuo Xiang is old, and he is solemn and old-fashioned, and he always thinks about it like an old man, you don't know, the prisoner of Guozijian gave him a nickname, called 'Old Father'." ”

Zhao Xiangling was still listening very seriously, but when he heard the words 'old father', he couldn't help laughing.

Li Ruiqing's face remained unchanged, and he said lightly: "I don't need to recognize my son, and I won't recognize Sun Siye." ”

This is scolding Sun Wunian in a corner.

Li Ruiqing's temper is well-known in the court, he never gets angry for no reason, and he will never scold anyone in a roundabout way.

Generally speaking, if someone scolds him, he will smile faintly, and then the person who scolds will always encounter some bad luck that month.

For example, the thatched house was burned by a fire, such as the thief was stolen, and the excerpt was accidentally dropped in the lotus pond by the emperor and needed to be rewritten.

Like today, after a few words of talking and laughing, he actually bit back without perseverance, and it was the first time.

Not to mention that Sun Wunian felt strange, even Zhao Xiangling felt that he should let the celadon record it and go back to have a glass of wine to commemorate it.

The battle of tongues fell to the upper hand, and Sun Wunian laughed twice: "The left is the same, but it is very different on weekdays." ”

Li Ruiqing glanced at him: "Who is the left minister, I am the national teacher." ”

Sun Wunian choked, and just wanted to refute again, but heard Zhao Xiangling laugh: "Yes, yes, yes, you are a national teacher, you are a national teacher." Hahahaha. ”

She smiled and fell on the table, looking at Li Ruiqing's serious appearance, she wanted to reach out and pinch his face.

Doesn't he know how to speak? It turned out that he was just too lazy to say.

Seeing her smiling happily, Sun Wunian suddenly felt very bored.

Fortunately, the maid brought the pastries, which eased his embarrassment a little.

The pastries on the table are all sweet, mung bean cake, red bean cake, pineapple cake, golden roll...... are all things that Zhao Xiangling likes very much.

picked up a plate of pineapple cake and put it in front of Li Ruiqing, and Zhao Xiangling picked up the other snacks and slowly began to eat.

She looked at Sun Wunian in a daze, and pushed him: "Hey, why don't you eat it?" ”

Sun Wunian glanced at her, as if something strange, and there seemed to be something else in his eyes: "Don't you like pineapple cake the most?" ”

Li Ruiqing's fingers, who twisted up a piece of crisp, stiffened.

Zhao Xiangling replied casually: "Oh." Ruiqing doesn't like desserts and only eats one kind of pineapple cake. ”

The strangeness in Sun Wunian's eyes was even worse. His pupils shrank slightly in the light coming in from the window.

After a moment of silence, he asked, "Are you familiar with him?" ”

Zhao Xiangling saw that he hadn't eaten for a long time, so he stuffed him with a piece of mung bean cake: "Cooked, of course cooked, I used to be in poor health, Ruiqing's mother is the best doctor in the south, so I raised it in his house for half a year." ”

There was no need for Zhao Xiangling to continue, Sun Wunian also roughly knew what the situation was. He put the mung bean cake in his hand on the plate, wiped his hands and got up and smiled: "I'm sorry, I'll go out and come back later." ”

Zhao Xiangling blinked, feeling that something was not quite right, but he didn't ask more, and replied with a smile: "Then you come back quickly." ”

"Hmm." Sun Wunian seemed to be in a real hurry, so he lifted his leg and left, without looking back.

Zhao Xiangling bit the cake and muttered in a low voice: "It's really strange, why are they not quite right today?" ”

"Could it be that he has a bad stomach?"

Zhao Xiangling sniffed the pastry in his hand and felt that there was no problem.

Li Ruiqing quietly ate the piece of pineapple cake in his hand, and pushed the plate to her: "I'm done." ”

Of the six cakes, he ate only one. It's not at all his usual appetite. Zhao Xiangling picked up a piece and sniffed it, feeling that there was no problem.

What's wrong with all of them?

Zhao Xiangling looked outside, the clouds were thin and white, the sky was blue and high, and it didn't seem to be raining.

Thinking about it, Zhao Xiangling felt that there was probably no explanation, and continued to bite her cake quietly. Anyway, Li Ruiqing didn't eat it, and the remaining five pieces would all belong to her.