Minhua looked at her, there was a shallow light outside the window on her face, white as jade, full of green silk on her shoulders, although she was not freshened, but there was a lazy beauty. Her voice was soft and soft, and she spoke slowly, as if it had infinite meaning. When she talked about the sixth brother, her eyes were filled with deep friendship, like a pure and clear sky, without any impurities.

Mo Lan suddenly said, "I can see that you like Su and He very much. ”

Hearing Su Hehe's name at first glance, Min Hua was startled, with the trance of getting up in the morning, and said: "He's so stupid, how can I ......" couldn't continue, his cheeks were like a red glow, and his hands were twisted around his waist with a ribbon. She is usually high-flying, noble and arrogant, but at this time, she shows the demeanor of her youngest daughter, which is a little touching.

As the sun set down, the sky burned through like a fire, and the blood fell on the window, reflecting an orange-red color. Mo Lan said again: "With Su and He's temperament, if you don't tell him, he will never understand it for the rest of his life." When you hesitate, other little ladies will knock on his heart and live in his heart. By the time you regret it, it's too late. After a pause, he said: "There is nothing fair or unfair about the things of love, only the first come, the first come." ”

She looked at Minhua as if she was looking at Mo Chou, so small, so conceited, even if she liked someone, she would hide it very deep and never let people know.

Minhua has grown so big, and it is the first time he has spoken so much to someone. When it was time to hold the lamp, she stepped back to the Scarlet Hall in the night. She walked slowly on the palace street, and the attendants were lighting lamps everywhere, and when they saw her, they all stood in the corner of the wall, and the palace lamps in their hands gently rippled in the wind. The sky was dark and dark, and a few stars surrounded the bright moon, scattering the light of innocence. She chewed on the sentence in her heart: "There is nothing fair or unfair about love, only about first come and first come." ”

Seeing that the princess was not going to the dormitory, and did not know where she was going, the palace maid said, "Princess, it's time to go back to dinner." ”

Minhua came back to his senses, looked around, and unconsciously went out of the Yujin Gate and arrived in the garden of Funing Palace. She looked in the distance, and there were several guards' resting quarters in the distance, and the lights were shining, and the guards were wearing the same scarfs on their heads, wearing the same armor, and there was a faint sound of footsteps.

She was sour and unbearable, as if she was being pulled by something, and walked forward step by step, and when she arrived at the door of the rest house, the guards had already bowed down, and the ghost of Minhua wanted to go in like a god, but she was pulled by the palace maid, and pleaded in her ear: "Princess, these are all pro-soldiers, no better than the inner servants, and they can't meet at will." You'd better go back! ”

Minhua seemed to wake up suddenly, thinking that his daughter had almost walked to such a pickled place, and he was about to turn around and go back, but a voice came from nowhere, saying, "Princess Minhua, please stop." ”

She looked away, only to see a tall figure turn out of the corner door, the palace lamp hanging overhead, and the dim candlelight reflected his handsome eyebrows. He had just been playing Keju with his colleagues in the open space of the rest place, so he was not wearing armor, and he was wearing a green shirt half-open, exposing his chest muscles, and he looked very burly and powerful. His beard grew again, stiff, and seemed to hurt when it was pierced on a person. He walked towards Minhua step by step, his face like frost.

She couldn't help but take a step back, she was a little scared, her eyes were hot, as if she was about to cry.

Su Hehe didn't see anything unusual, and said, "Blessed princess." ”

Minhua barely said "um", but he couldn't speak. And said: "This is the resting place of the pro-army guards, please stop the princess." As he spoke, something suddenly fell from the sky, hurried and fast, and threw it towards Minhua.

Minhua was still in a trance, she didn't even have time to react, Su Jihe pulled her into his arms and pressed her face against her hot chest. The palace maid screamed beside her, and he seemed to be angry, but she seemed to be deaf, she couldn't hear anything, just rumbled. His chest was so wide that she couldn't help but feel affection, and she looked up to see his chin, with a black velvet beard on it, just stuck on her forehead.

Her voice was as thin as a mosquito's cry, and she said, "Su Jihe, I want to marry you." ”

A pro-army ran out of the courtyard in an uproar, and the noise was everywhere, he didn't know what she had said, so he only let her go and said, "It's expedient, please forgive the princess." ”

The pro-soldier who kicked Keju out of the wall knelt down and said, "Please forgive the princess." ”

There were people kneeling on the ground in front of her, Minhua woke up from her dream, her mind was uneasy, she took a few steps back, opened her eyes and looked at Hehe, only to see him hanging his head, his face full of respect, nothing unusual. She didn't know if he had heard it, or if he had heard it, she thought it hadn't. She is the most noble princess of the Great Song Dynasty, and she will never say that sentence a second time in her life. She slowly stepped back, turning her back against him.

In August, Yuanhao of Western Xia sent ambassadors to make peace, and Zhao Zhen selected more than ten princesses from the side branches and carefully selected. Previously, everyone thought that only the ambassador came, but when he arrived in Bianjing, he knew that it was Yuan Hao who came in person, which made people admire his courage. Zhao Zhen held a grand banquet in Jiying Palace, and when he was slightly drunk, Yuan Hao suddenly presented the album, and the guards around him were all in a daze, for fear of assassination, and he was busy fighting twelve points of mental response.

Yuan Hao was born in the barbaric land of Western Xia, not as good as the Central Plains to know etiquette and etiquette, he walked to the court with a big grin, and said loudly: "Three years ago, on the Qingming Festival, I met a Central Plains lady on Gongyi Street, with a face like a pear blossom, which is really unforgettable. If the official family can help me find this girl, I think the friendship between Western Xia and the Great Song Dynasty will go to the next floor. As he spoke, he asked the attendant to spread out the scroll and hold it high in front of Zhao Zhen's eyes.

The woman in the painting is wearing a flaming red dress, wide clothes and large sleeves, holding a flat bun, with roses on her sideburns, apricot eyes and eyebrows, thin lips slightly upturned, and a shallow smile. Zhao Zhen suddenly lost his color, sat up solemnly from his seat, and said angrily: "You are too bold and reckless, you dare to covet my concubine." ”

The courtiers at the banquet on both sides also began to whisper, Yuan Hao was surprised in his heart, and said, "Why did the official family say this?" This woman is just an ordinary lady I met in the night market, how can she be the concubine of an official family? ”

Zhao Zhen is not a mediocre gentleman, but after a while, his face has returned to normal, and then he smiled: "I think it's just like that." Suddenly, there was a mask under the corner of the painting, and I couldn't help asking, "How did you meet that lady?" ”

Yuan Hao was frank and swaying, not as cowardly as the courtiers of the Central Plains, he said generously: "In our Western Xia, every year the Flower Dynasty Festival will hold a game of "Lady Mask", everyone wears a mask and dances, if there are men and women who take off each other's masks, then the two are a match made in heaven. After a pause, he said, "I wonder if the official family has heard such rumors?" ”

Zhao Zhen couldn't help but think of that year when she was in Gongyi with Mo Lan, and she had said the same thing, so she nodded and said, "I have also heard about it. ”

Yuan Hao continued: "This lady is the one who took off the mask with me, and the official said, should I look for her?" ”

At this time, Zhao Zhen suddenly remembered that when he went to Yongding Mausoleum to sweep the tomb that year, he took Mo Lan out of the palace secretly and played the "Lady Mask" game in the night market.

When the banquet dispersed, Zhao Zhen went to Luanming Palace, although he should ask Yuan Hao to help him find someone, but he did not promise, what if he found it. Mo Lan walked in the courtyard with a big belly, although it was only four months, it was enough to see that it was five or six months, and the imperial doctors did not dare to make a judgment, only prescribed some nourishing decoction.

It was the middle of summer, and the night was as cool as water.

The Luanming Hall had been locked, and suddenly the holy car was coming, and the maids were busy opening the door in a hurry, and went to prepare for the bedtime. Moran was pregnant, and he had always stayed elsewhere for fear of disturbing her peace. Seeing her standing under the porch with a smile waiting for her, Zhao Zhen walked over quickly, took her hand, and asked, "How is the meal?" ”

Mo Lan smiled: "The imperial doctor can tell me to eat less, otherwise the fetus is too big to give birth." You're good, when you come to see me, you always ask if you are eating well. ”

Zhao Zhen had just gone to the banquet, and although he had changed his clothes in the Funing Palace, there was still a residual smell of wine on his body.

Mo Lan asked Qingqiu to boil the sobering soup, served him to drink, and said: "Although the wine banquet is unavoidable, Liulang should also be restrained, it is not beneficial to the body." ”

Zhao Zhen's mind sank, and he said in pieces: "Mo Lan, do you still remember the person who took off the mask with you in Gongyi that year? ”

The bamboo curtain is rolled high, the inky black sky is hung with a thin hooked moon, and the scattered stars are spread all over the sky, and the sky and the earth are bright and quiet. Mo Lan was sitting in front of the mirror with her hair in a bun, green silk was spread all over her body, she was holding an ivory comb with carved peony patterns in her hand, combing it to the tip of her hair thinly, and said, "I don't remember it for a long time." After a pause, he turned around and asked with a smile: "Why did you suddenly think of this?" ”

Zhao Zhen lay on his back on the rattan chair, closed his eyes slightly, and a few smiles appeared on the corners of his mouth, and said, "It's nothing." ”

Seeing that he was extremely tired, Moran got up and took his hand and said, "Don't sleep on the chair, go and rest on the couch." ”

Zhao Zhen shook her hand, only to feel that the warmth was lubricated and greasy, and the tentacles were warm, and he was reluctant to let go for a long time. His face was visible in the lamplight, with slender and thick sword eyebrows, a straight nose, and long eyelashes covering his face like a feather fan. His lips were extremely rosy, thinly pursed, softly upturned.

Moran was emotional, leaned down and kissed him, but before he touched his lips, he reached out and held him in his arms.

Feeling full of nephrite warm fragrance, Zhao Zhen opened his eyes, put his head on her forehead, and jokingly said, "You are setting yourself on fire." Mo Lan was young after all, although she was in front of Zhao Zhen, she didn't want to always talk about the boudoir, she squeezed into his arms, blushed, and said, "I just want to kiss you." ”

Zhao Zhen said: "Kissing is a price to pay......"

Hearing what he said, Mo Lan was so frightened that he didn't dare to move anymore, and the two of them leaned quietly for a long time before Zhao Zhen picked her up, put her on the couch, and said, "I'll read a book for a while, you go to sleep first." ”

Moran bowed his head and said, "You're tired today, don't watch too late." ”

Zhao Zhen nodded, blew out the light in front of the bed, put down the gauze tent again, and then gently went out.

When he got up the next morning, when Mo Lan woke up, Zhao Zhen had already gone to the court. She sat up on her side, the bed was extremely wide, and the green gauze tent was caged in layers. It was already dawn, and it shone on a slice of lime in the tent. On the bed sill was a purse with a nine-clawed yellow dragon gold pattern, Mo Lan picked it up and sniffed it on the tip of his nose, and there was also a hint of koji wine.

Qingqiu led the palace maid in to wait for Mo Lan to get up, and when the curtain was lifted, he saw the scorching sun shining on the bamboo curtain and burning into the house through the cracks. She frowned and said, "What time is it?" ”

Qingqiu replied: "At the end of the hour." Mo Lan rolled up the bamboo curtain with her shoes, and it was already three poles of sunshine, she couldn't help but be a little angry, and said, "Why didn't you wake me up earlier?" Today is fifteen, you should go to Ciyuan Hall to say goodbye. ”

Qingqiu said: "When the official family left, they said that the mother did not sleep well last night, and asked the slaves and maids not to wake you up." He helped Moran to sit in front of the dresser, put a few boxes of jewelry in front of him, and said, "Don't worry, Niangniang, it's not too late, but the sun is out early in summer, so the sun is so scorching." ”

Now that it has come to this, Mo Lan has no choice but to say: "Then you can freshen up for me, and it will not be wrong to go earlier." After a pause, he said, "Ask someone to bring breakfast in, and I'll eat a few bites at will to fill my stomach." ”

Although they were in a hurry, they were still late, and when Moran arrived, everyone had been waiting for a long time.

The queen was young, only over eighteen, and saw that Mo Lan was pregnant with a dragon heir, so she didn't dare to reprimand, but said politely: "If Concubine Shu is unwell, send someone to Ciyuan Hall to say goodbye, you don't have to force yourself to come over to say goodbye." ”

Mo Lan saluted and said, "The concubine is rude, please forgive the queen." ”

At this time, Li Jieyu smiled and said: "I heard that the official's family stayed in Luanming Hall yesterday, so it's no wonder that Concubine Shu came late today." When the concubines heard this, they were secretly shocked in their hearts, but they didn't dare to say anything.

Zhou Meiren has been in the limelight recently, and her mouth is also a little more powerful, and she said lightly: "Concubine Shu is really enviable, even if she is pregnant, she can firmly attract the official family." ”

After the queen got married, she was not lucky, and she stayed alone in the empty room every day, and when she heard Zhou Meiren say this, it seemed to be a stab on the tip of her heart, and she couldn't speak for a while.

The people in the harem were unpredictable, and Mo Lan didn't want to worry about it, so as not to cause any extraneous branches, so he smiled and said: "Queen Mother, yesterday the concubine personally made some white cardamom cooked water, which can cure the problem of summer dampness and spleen deficiency, and I specially gave it to you to taste." After speaking, Chao Qingqiu raised his face, but after a while, a palace maid brought a drink into the hall with a large porcelain bowl with a blue glazed lotus pattern, and knelt in front of Yizhen and held it high.

Yizhen hurriedly ordered the maid to fill half a bowl of soup and drink it, and nodded: "Sweet and refreshing, delicious, good." Shufei fruit is a blue heart, and even the drink can be so ingenious. ”

Mo Lan said respectfully: "It's just idle and boring, the queen praised it." ”

Lang Yueben sat quietly on the side, and at this time Fang said: "If my sister says so, she is humble." Everyone knows that the lady concubine in the palace is very good at making drinks, and when the Queen Mother is there, she is also full of praise. He smiled and said to everyone: "Even Princess Minhua is Concubine Shu's apprentice." ”

Zhou Meiren sneered and said, "Concubine Shu was the maid of the tea palace in front of the palace before, so she naturally knows how to make tea and drink. He looked at Mo Lan again and asked, "I heard that you also worked as a cheap maid doctor in the Cuihe Pavilion, but I don't know how your medical skills are?" ”

Lang Yue took a sip of tea, lowered her face and gently skimmed the floating leaves with the tea lid, and remained silent.

Most of the new concubines are selected from the family of the scholar, although they know that the concubine is from the palace and is known as a holy favor, but they don't want to be cheap maids, they are all surprised.

Mo Lan was smart, how could he not know what everyone was thinking, and said with a rhetorical smile: "I once worshipped the female doctor in charge of the Cuihe Pavilion as a teacher, and I also learned some medical skills, but I am not very good, and I can only treat some small problems with headaches and fevers." ”

The more calm Moran was, the more unwilling others became. Yizhen saw that Mo Lan's answer was fluent, without any humility, and she also had some admiration, so she said: "It's good to learn some medical skills, and you can also pay more attention to your health." ”

Moran heard that the queen was helping him to relieve the siege, and hurriedly said, "The queen is right. ”

Zhou Meiren still wanted to speak, but she heard the queen instruct the palace maid: "Cook the white cardamom cooked water brought by the lady concubine and share it with everyone." ”

The palace maid agreed, and the queen said to everyone: "I can't drink it alone, it's better to share it with everyone, and you can also taste the craftsmanship of the concubine." ”

When the concubines heard the queen say this, they knew it, and hurriedly said in unison: "The queen said yes." ”

Out of the Ciyuan Palace, Qingqiu was still angry, helped Mo Lan to walk on the palace street, and said: "That Zhou Meiren relied on her father and brother's power in the court, so aggressive, it was really hateful. ”

Mo Lan was indifferent and said, "Don't shout loudly, so that people can hear it, and think I'm pampered and proud." ”

Qingqiu said: "Niangniang is just too "delicate", so even the little beauty dares to bully her." ”

When Mo Lan heard her say this, he couldn't help but laugh and said, "Why did she deceive her head, but she said a few shabby words, just as if she didn't hear it, and I couldn't miss a piece of meat." Take another 10,000 steps back, I did come out of the Cuihe Pavilion, and I don't need to hide it. ”

Qingqiu pursed her lips and said, "It's naturally good for Niangniang to be generous, but if they are too careless, they will only gain an inch." I've been in the palace for so many years, so I can see it clearly. ”

A few magpies flew in the sky in the distance, chirping and chirping, which was very lively. The sky was as blue as the sea, and the white clouds floated slowly towards the sky. It was almost noon, and the red sun was as hot as fire, and it seemed to be roasting on the stove when walking on the road.

Moran hooked his lips and smiled: "Even if you see it clearly, how can you see through it and let it go?" When I first became a concubine, I just wanted to stay with the official family, and even now, I still think so. They love to fight and fight, so let them fight and fight, what do you have to do with me? He looked at Qingqiu with a sideways face, and said sternly: "I see that you have been safe all day, how can you be so ignorant today, and talk about concubines on the palace street, and you will not be allowed in the future." ”

Qingqiu followed Mo Lan for a few years, and gradually touched her temperament, seeing that she was so loud, she hurriedly said: "The slave knows it, and I won't dare to do it in the future." ”

Moran listened and said, "You have to remember it in your heart." After a pause, he said, "Let's go to the Funing Hall to take a look at the official's house." Qingqiu didn't allow it, and said: "It's time for lunch, and the mother hasn't had breakfast, even if you are not hungry, the prince should be hungry." ”

Mo Lan said: "Are you still afraid that Funing Hall will not be able to eat without anything?" ”

Qingqiu was so anxious that he stomped his feet and said, "Niangniang......"

Mo Lan smiled and said, "Let's just go, the official family will call the shots." ”