The warm incense in the Luoxue Pavilion was fragrant, and the incense bell burning on one side fell on a silver pendant, becoming the only sound in the hall at this time.

The hand of the lotus leaf holding the embroidery needle was tight, and the knuckles were blue and white due to too much force, and on the left finger that had been pierced by the embroidery needle before, a small drop of blood like red jade had condensed.

Raising his eyes and looking at Lingxi's face, Lotus Ye pulled the corners of his mouth, and said with an innocent smile, "Niangniang, what are you talking about, the slave has never gone out by your side every day, what is there to deceive you?" ”

Lingxi looked at Lotus Ye's slightly nervous expression, and felt more and more that Lotus Ye was hiding something from her.

No longer looking at the lotus leaves, Lingxi turned his head to look at the five princes, softened his voice and smiled, "Yi'er, why did the fifth emperor sister let you stay by your mother's side and not let your mother go out?" ”

The fifth prince looked at Lingxi, then at the lotus leaf, and replied in a milky voice, "Mother, the fifth emperor sister said that the weather outside is cold, and she will not let her go out." ”

"That's it?"

The fifth prince looked at Lingxi fixedly, neither shaking his head nor nodding.

Lotus Ye put down the belly pocket in his hand, sucked the blood on his finger into his mouth, stood up and walked in front of Lingxi, and said with a smile, "Niangniang, the five princes are sleepy, the slave maid will call Xia Qing in, and go back to bed with the five princes." ”

As soon as the fifth prince turned over and stood up on the low kang, he opened his little hand to the lotus leaf, looked back at Lingxi and said, "Mother, Yi'er is sleepy, Yi'er has to go to sleep first." ”

Lingxi looked at Lotus Ye and the Five Princes, and lowered his eyes and said, "You go out with him, and I'll go to bed." ”

As he spoke, he got up and got off the low kang, and walked towards the dormitory with the hand of a small palace maid beside him.

Lotus Ye kept watching Lingxi's back and entered the dormitory, before turning around and putting on a thick cloak for the five princes, and carrying the five princes out of the inner hall.

In the middle room, Qiaozhu, Hanyu, and Xia Qing are all there.

Xia Qing took the fifth prince into his arms and asked, "Niang Niang is sleeping?" ”

Lotus Ye nodded with a bitter face, and just wanted to learn what the fifth prince said to Lingxi and Qiaozhu, Xia Qing saw Xiao Dezi walk in from outside.

Xiao Dezi was air-conditioned, with snowflakes on his shoulders, and his face was a little pale.

Seeing that Lotus Ye Qiaozhu and several people were there, Xiao Dezi sobbed at the corner of his mouth, afraid that he would make a sound, so he covered his sleeves on his face and didn't take it off for a while.

Lotus leaves, Qiaozhu's hearts fell into the deep valley at once.

Xia Qing stretched out his hand and tied the cloak of the five princes tightly, and said in a tight voice, "I'll take the five princes back first......

After saying that, he greeted the nurse of the five princes, and the palace maid walked out of the side room and returned to the east side hall.

Hanyu twisted a warm wet handkerchief and handed it to Xiao Dezi, and said softly, "Father-in-law De, you wipe it." ”

Xiao Dezi took the handkerchief and wiped his face indiscriminately, and when he looked up again, there was no sad expression on his face, but there were a few more red bloodshots in his eyes like fine beans on weekdays, as if people who stayed up late did not wake up.

Lotus Ye nudged Xiao Dezi and said in a low voice, "What's wrong." ”

Xiao Dezi lowered his head and said, "In the afternoon, the imperial physician went to see it, and said that the empress dowager was already old and couldn't afford the medicine of the tiger and wolf. In the evening, the high fever of the Empress Dowager subsided......"

"Isn't it a great joy to retire?" Qiaozhu's lips trembled slightly, and there was a hint of joy on his face, "The high fever has subsided, isn't the Empress Dowager's illness cured?" ”

Xiao Dezi's mouth deflated again, and he said in a suppressed voice, "It's gone, now there is no temperature at all, Miss Zhiyue put three charcoal basins in the Changle Palace, but I don't see the empress dowager's body temperature rise a little." ”

Lotus Ye gasped, and quickly covered her mouth with her hand, tears sliding down from the corners of her eyes.

Hanyu squatted on the ground, buried her head in the crook of her arm, and her shoulders trembled.

Qiaozhu took a few deep breaths, wiped away the tears that fell out of the corners of his eyes with his sleeve, tried his best to widen his apricot eyes, and said, "Can't cry, we can't cry, we have to go in and wait for Niangniang in a while." ”

The lotus leaf snatched the cold handkerchief from Xiao Dezi's hand and wiped the tears off his face.

Xiao Dezi clenched his hands into fists and calmed down for a while before he said again, "When I came back, the emperor had already arrived at the Changle Palace, and there were also concubines and concubines. Don't tell our mother about this, it's the Empress Dowager's personal decree. When I was on the way, I stopped the little eunuch who claimed to be sent by the emperor, and I asked the little rat to beat him up and throw him out of Luoxue Pavilion. Now I'm afraid that there is someone around the mother who eats inside and out, and has eighty-one hearts. I'm coming back to tell you that, except for the people we believe, the other palace maids and grandmothers should let them stay away from our mothers. Wait, wait for a few days......"

Qiaozhu sobbed a few times, and said to the lotus leaf with red and swollen eyes, "Lotus leaf, I'll go in first, you go and wash your face with cold water ......"

Lotus Ye bit her lip and nodded, tears sliding down the corners of her eyes again.

Xiao Dezi touched Hanyu's shoulder and said, "Hanyu, don't go to the palace to wait, you work the corridor." There are palace maids who want to go in, no matter what the big thing is, they will all be dismissed......"

Hanyu raised her head, her pale little face was full of tears, she stood up, wiped the tears off her face with a cotton handkerchief, and choked up, "Well, I'll go to the outside of the temple to guard, and not a single fly will let it fly in." ”

Xiao Dezi glanced at the incense clock on the carved table, and said, "That's it, lotus leaves and Qiaozhu go in to accompany Niangniang, Hanyu guards the palace gate, I go to guard the courtyard gate with the little mouse, and I come back every half an hour to meet with you." ”

Qiaozhu took a few deep breaths, and after his mood calmed down completely, he rubbed his cheeks vigorously with both hands, and then made a smiling face and asked Xiao Dezi and Lotus Ye, "How is it?" ”

Xiao Dezi smiled bitterly, "Don't laugh, it's more ugly than crying, you can keep the expressionless expression you usually have." ”

Qiaozhu nodded, picked up the almond tea prepared in advance on the table, and turned around and walked towards the inner hall. And Hanyu, Xiao Dezi, and Lotus Leaf walked outside the hall.

Qiaozhu stood for a long time with almond tea in the cotton curtain embroidered with flowers, until he was sure that he had really adjusted his mood, so he changed his expression and opened the curtain of the inner hall.

In the inner hall, more than a dozen palace maids knelt on the ground, all with their heads bowed, their hands on the ground, and their shoulders trembled uncontrollably.

Qiaozhu chuckled in her heart when she saw it, and she hurriedly stepped in, her eyes scanning the hall. After not seeing Lingxi's figure, Qiaozhu touched a little palace maid at his feet with his foot and asked, "Panchun, what about Niangniang......

Panchun raised his head, glanced at Qiaozhu timidly, and his shoulders trembled even more, "Niangniang is out." ”

Qiaozhu was furious when he heard this, and shouted, "Go out!" Are you dead? Doesn't the mother go out and don't follow? ”

Panchun sobbed and replied with a crying voice, "As soon as the lotus leaf girl entered the side room, the mother came out of the dormitory, and stood here and opened a small crack to see, the slave and the maid persuaded, and the maid did not allow the slave and the maid to make a sound. I don't know what Niangniang heard, Niangniang went out of the hall, the slave didn't dare to stop, Niangniang said that the slave and maid dared to stop and cut off the heads of the slaves and maids......"

Before Panchun's words were finished, the almond tea in Qiaozhu's hand fell to the ground with a 'pop' and shattered.

Qiaozhu didn't care about the servants in the hall, raised his hand and picked up the thick cloak from the screen, and ran into the side room like crazy.

Seeing that the lotus leaf came back, Qiao Zhuwa cried out and complained, "It's all your fault, you don't see if Niangniang is following behind, Niangniang listened to what we said, and now I ran out by myself......"

Lotus Ye's brain buzzed, and he said helplessly, "Run out, where did you go......

"Where else could it be, where else could it be besides the Changle Palace?" As he spoke, he took the hand of the lotus leaf and rushed out.

Hanyu was shivering in the corridor with his shoulders in the cold, and when he saw Lotus Ye and Qiaozhu running out in a hurry with Lingxi's cloak, he immediately understood what was going on, and after sobbing twice, he covered his mouth and cried bitterly.

Running to the gate of the courtyard of Luoxue Pavilion, the little mouse ran over head-on, saw the lotus leaf and Qiaozhu, and said anxiously, "Lotus leaf girl, Qiaozhu girl, Niangniang went to the direction of Changle Palace, and Gonggong De asked the little one to come back and tell you." ”

"Lead the way," the lotus leaf was blown by the cold wind, and her brain had calmed down, and she said to the little mouse, "How is Niangniang's mood now?" ”

The little mouse trotted in front and said, "Niangniang just keeps crying and doesn't speak." ”

In the small garden of Yongshou Palace, Lotus Leaf and Qiaozhu saw the spirit rhino struggling to move forward in the snow. Xiao Dezi was at Lingxi's side, bowing down, holding Lingxi's left hand.

Qiaozhu ran to him, put the thick cloak in his hand on Lingxi's thin cloak and tied it, and then helped Lingxi's right arm.

They all know that once they decide what they want to do, they will not change it easily.

The lotus leaf took the place of Xiao Dezi and firmly held Lingxi's left arm.

"Mother, it's cold in the snow, let's go to the passage." Lotus leaf persuaded.

Lingxi shook his head, tears rolling down his face. She clenched her throat and said, "No, the road is stone-faced and slippery. Here, nearly ......"

Lingxi's words were intermittent, but Lotus Ye still understood. Lingxi means that the road surface of Yongdao is slippery, and it is dangerous to walk up. Although it is difficult to walk in the snow, it will not slip, and taking a straight line in the snow is better than winding on the road leading to the Changle Palace.

Qiaozhu picked up the handkerchief, helped Lingxi wipe the tears on his face in a hurry, and choked up, "Niangniang, the Empress Dowager is old, and her old man specially ordered not to let you know, just for fear that you would have an accident." You must think about it......"

Lingxi looked at the Yongshou Palace in the snow, tried hard to discern the direction of the Changle Palace, trembled his voice, and said intermittently, "I, I know, Ancestor, I am old. Birth, old age, sickness and death, human beings, common feelings...... I just want to see ...... If I can't see it, I'll regret it, regret it for the rest of my life......"

A little eunuch ran to the road, and when he saw the four Lingxi masters and servants in the snow, he knelt down and choked up, "Ye Guifei Niangniang, the Empress Dowager is not good, the emperor sent a servant to invite Niangniang to come over......"