Qi Hui said: "Remember you said before, Jingmei she? ”

Xiang Xiang nodded again and again, showing an uneasy mood, and after that night, I thought that Jingshu would come to her, no matter what the reason was not coming, Xiangxiang always felt that there was something hanging in his heart, and when he mentioned the prince at this moment, he asked Qi Hui: "What kind of person is the prince, do you understand?" ”

Qi Hui groaned and shook his head: "Maybe it's because he's too weird, I can't understand it." ”

"Weird?"

"He has a changeable personality, he is completely different from people before and after, he seems to be a humble gentleman who is as gentle as jade, but he is often full of anger when he turns his back on people, and even irritable and cruel, very similar to the emperor you and I have seen." Qi Hui said, "I don't want to speak ill of Jingmei in front of you, but someone like the prince may get along with Jingmei." ”

"Whether it gets along or not, Jingshu has fallen in love with the prince, she really doesn't want to die, she can't do anything." Xiangxiang sighed heavily.

"With me, it's also very risky, and you will die at any time." Qi Hui said, "I think you are braver than her." ”

Xiangxiang smiled, stuffed his hand into Qi Hui's thick and wide palm, gently snuggled up to him, listened to the music from afar, and said comfortably: "I never thought about what kind of person I would meet in this life, but now that I meet the best, I won't let go." ”

"Really?" Qi Hui smiled and stretched out his hand to hug Xiangxiang, but he hesitated slightly when he hung in the air. Xiangxiang can always lean over and snuggle himself without scruples, but he can't reach out and hold her in his arms in the most natural way, every time he cares and scruples, he is afraid that he can't give her a peaceful and free life. He shouldn't let a woman suffer the hardships of the same as himself, he should give her the best life.

But in the end, they hugged it, and Xiangxiang never had any scruples about not kissing, although they had not yet reached that point, they could hold hands and hug and rely on, and they were used to it. Xiangxiang has not received an education in three obedience and four virtues, and she does not understand the meaning of those young ladies who are reserved and shy, she falls in love with Qi Hui, and she wants to snuggle up with him.

The music sounded for a long time, and Qi Hui told Xiangxiang that today was just to announce the prince's engagement, and when the Mid-Autumn Festival came, he would officially get engaged to Miss Mo's family. And what made Xiangxiang stunned was that the young lady of the Mo family, who is only eleven years old this year, is the cousin and niece of the prince, not only is the two a generation apart, she is still a child. Qi Hui said that it was impossible for the Mo family to give up the position of the future queen to the daughter of another family, and the queen's violent death was a great blow to the Mo family, so he hoped that after the crown prince ascended the throne, the Mo family could revitalize the lintel.

Xiangxiang was very smart, and immediately asked: "So they are opposed to Pang Gongzi's family?" ”

Qi Hui said with a smile: "Yes, Pang Jun has been with Concubine Li for many years, and he has joined forces to compete with the Mo family in the former harem, if the prince successfully ascends the throne, the future of the Pang family is worrying." ”

Xiangxiang frowned and asked worriedly: "Then Pang Gongzi will also be implicated, what is the best result?" She shook her head and said bitterly, "It's a little messy." ”

Qi Hui stretched out his hand to rub her head, and couldn't put down Xiangxiang's words and smiles, "Don't think about it, if you want to know, I can tell you anything." ”

Xiang Xiang Yanran: "I'm not particularly curious, I don't want to." She reversed Xi Niang's tone, "Xi Niang once said that those stinky men are all supported by the common people, and they still pretend to be with the people's fat and people's ointment, and they don't do anything serious, they only covet enjoyment and whitewash the peace." ”

Qi Hui smiled: "It's very similar to learning, that is, you saved all the words she scolded her father and mother." ”

Xiangxiang giggled: "I can't say it, I heard Xi Niang scolding, I was very relieved, and I never thought she was vulgar, she probably likes a person, and everything she does is pleasing to the eye." ”

Qi Hui asked, "What do you like about Xi Niang?" ”

Xiangxiang responded seriously: "Xi Niang is upright, she is indecent but not cheap, she is a prostitute and I am a dancer, neither of which we chose ourselves." Ke Xi Niang is now alone up and down the Closed Moon Pavilion, and the young and old people in it all rely on her to live, she said that she is better than many people in her life, and one person can feed dozens of people. ”

Xiangxiang misses Xi Niang very much, she hasn't seen her for several months, speaking of her, it is clear that Qi Hui should be more familiar than herself, but she can't help but praise, she likes Xi Niang's open mind, Xi Niang said that she lives by selling her skin and flesh, she does not despise herself, but she understands the identity she should have, and she never thought of occupying a position in this world.

I hate those literati and ink writers the most, chanting a few sour poems to praise the Qinglou women as talented and beautiful, and the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting will be against the poems, but they use them to entertain guests and make money, but those sour literati in order to cover up their ugly behavior as prostitutes, they insist on pushing the Qinglou women to the holy high platform.

Xiangxiang said: "Every time I comb Xi Niang's hair, I will listen to her train the little girls under her, telling them not to be blinded by a few rhetoric, and to come to the Qinglou to shop, there can be a few good men." Her eyes flashed, and she said proudly, "No matter what others think, I admire Xi Niang, she sees the world thoroughly." ”

Qi Hui hurriedly said: "I went to the Closed Moon Pavilion, I never just talked to her, and I haven't looked at other people's faces carefully for so many years. ”

Xiangxiang understood it in his heart, but he squinted at him narrowly, frowned and looked at him in a posture of interrogation, patted Qi Hui on the chest, and asked, "I really haven't looked at it carefully?" The Closed Moon Pavilion is notoriously beautiful with many girls, and the ugliest ones can be pulled out, and they can also go to other houses to be an Oiran. ”

Qi Hui smiled: "Then next time, I'll take a closer look." ”

The two of them were laughing outside the door, and the virtuous concubine in the house heard it very clearly, for twenty years, except that this child was a little old and didn't understand the suffering of the world, he would be amused by his mother when he was a little older, and after he was sensible, he couldn't hear a few laughs a year. Just listening to this laughter, Concubine Xian's body seemed to be able to heal without treatment, but she knew in her heart that she couldn't make herself better.

She has dragged her son down for so many years, and now that someone can spend her life with him, she must let her son unload his burden. There are many, many things waiting for his son to show his strength, and this world is destined to be his.

At this point, the sound of the music finally stopped. Lile woke up the entire palace early in the morning, and some of the elderly concubines were about to go back to sleep, but Jingshu was already standing in the courtyard, waiting for the dancers to come and rehearse. These days, she tosses for five or six hours a day, which is even stricter than in the dance class, and a few of them can't stand it, Jingshu beats or scolds without mercy, and the dancers have long complained.

Today she was woken up by Lile, she was ready early, she had been waiting for a quarter of an hour, and now when everyone arrived, it was obviously not that the dancers were late, but she actually made her former sisters kneel in the courtyard, and she sat proudly under the eaves and looked at them, and saw them swaying and painful, and there was an inexplicable pleasure in her heart.

Looking at every face, there are memories of being happy or unhappy in the past, there are those who have a good relationship with her, and there are also those who excluded her in the past who are beautiful and capable, and the people who have been tossed the most in the past few days are also those who bullied her in the past.

And recalling the past life, it is natural to think of Xiangxiang, Jingshu has no reliable person to help her inquire why Xiangxiang is in the cold palace, and when she saw that Xiangxiang was still alive that day, she was happy in her heart. But later, the prince treated her badly, played with her and humiliated her, which made her unbearable than the torture of the old beast, and somehow, thinking that Xiangxiang was still alive, she felt uncomfortable.

What kind of days were in the cold palace, was she still there, and why did she go there?

At this time, a eunuch came in from outside the door, and Jing Shu recognized it as someone from the East Palace at a glance, and her heart was pounding, thinking about how they could break into Furong Ju in broad daylight, and learned that the person was sending the engagement news to the harem concubines on behalf of the prince, so she secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

But the eunuch approached and spoke, and at the end he added: "Your Highness wants the slave to ask, why haven't you been there for a few days." ”

Jing Shu was slightly embarrassed, raised her hand to let the dancers get up, and said perfunctorily: "Zhaoyi Niangniang told me to choreograph the dance, so that I can perform in the Mid-Autumn Festival." ”

The eunuch laughed softly: "Since this is the case, the servant replied, but His Highness said that he thought you were angry and unhappy." ”

Jingshu only felt a pain in her heart, what is the prince going to do, obviously pushing her away again and again and even humiliating her, this is to provoke her again, if they go to the East Palace tonight, they can be together?

But before going to the East Palace, she wanted to meet someone first.

Because of various things, the dance on this day did not last too long, but the dancers were still exhausted, and they helped each other to leave the Furong Residence, and began to curse Jingshu when they walked away. Qi Hui, who happened to come out to look for something, passed by them, listened to a few words, and knew that Song Jingshu deliberately tortured people, and on the way back to the cold palace, he had been conflicting, whether to tell Xiangxiang these words.

But he didn't expect that Song Jingshu really came to the cold palace, although he and Xiangxiang were prepared, Jingmei would come sooner or later, but it was not dark, as the most eye-catching concubine today, she went to the cold palace alone, what was the purpose?

But Jingshu was under Qi Hui's secret surveillance, and when she broke into the cold palace, she only saw Concubine Xian on the sickbed, she looked around, but there was no trace of Xiangxiang, and Concubine Xian on the couch coughed a few times, which scared her into weakness, and after a few words to herself, she left in a hurry.

Qi Hui watched Jingmei return to Furong House all the way, and after a while, he hurried back to the cold palace again, Xiangxiang, who had just disappeared out of thin air, was already on the edge of the bed at this time, Qi Hui asked her where she was hiding, Xiangxiang pointed to the bed and said: "I hid behind my mother, piled up the quilt, she didn't see it." ”

"You're not going to see her?"

"It's the mother who wants me to hide." Xiangxiang replied very frankly, "I don't know if it's Jingshu, when I heard someone coming in, Niangniang asked me to hide it." ”

Concubine Xian said weakly: "Listening to the footsteps of a person, I dare to let Xiangxiang hide here, I always want to be alone, and I won't do anything to me." ”

Qi Hui watched Xiangxiang fold the quilt for his mother, and gently asked her if she was hungry and thirsty, thinking of the complaints of the dancers, thinking of Song Jingshu's personality, and finally made up his mind, he would not instigate the sisterhood of Xiangxiang and Jingshu, but he should let Xiangxiang know what Jingmei looks like now. Then he said: "Xiangxiang, you come, I have something to say to you." ”