Although Pei Zhao was in Lishan, he made an order before leaving the palace, and every day he had to send the important pieces to the Lishan Palace, and if the matter was serious, Fang Shizhong and other ministers would come to report in person. In addition to the excerpts sent back by the envoys, this day's excerpts also involved major events such as the Autumn Festival, which was not trivial, so Fang Shizhong and others came overnight and waited in the palace early.

He has been in the palace for the past few days, and has been accompanying Su Ying every step of the way, but today's situation is really special, when he got up, he saw that she also opened her eyes, and he was very pitiful in his heart, so he said softly: "I'm afraid I won't be able to accompany you in the morning, why don't I let Pei Zheng come and talk to you?" ”

Su Ying smiled and pinched his face: "I also said that Pei Zheng is the basket, it turns out that the real basket is you." Go ahead, I'll have fun. ”

Although she said this, Pei Zhao always felt uneasy, hesitated for a moment, and asked again: "Or I will let them wait outside the hall, just discuss the matter outside, so that you don't stay alone." ”

Obediently, can you still do whatever you want like this? Su Ying pursed her lips and looked at him for a long time, and said righteously: "Pei Zhao, I found that you have a great talent for being a faint king. ”

Pei Zhao smiled, and when he saw her sitting up and wanted to straighten herself out, she hurriedly lowered her head and said with a smile: "Then why don't I be a faint monarch today?" ”

She flicked it on his forehead: "Forget it, I'm still waiting to borrow your name to show off everywhere!" He urged: "Go quickly, don't teach people to wait all the time." ”

Pei Zhao had to nod, looked at her deeply again, and then slowly left. As soon as he left, Su Ying couldn't sleep, and Gong'e, who was guarding outside, heard the movement, so she smiled and said, "Niangniang, can the slave and maid serve you and get up?" ”

Duan Niang is still in Anguo Temple to do some business, and it will take seven or eight days to come over, and before leaving that day, Pei Zhao had intended to let Yunluo accompany her to Lishan. But Yunluo is already married to a wife, so naturally she can't revolve around her alone. Fortunately, the palace people here have been serving in the palace, she has never been to Lishan before, everyone only thinks she is Pei Zhao's favorite concubine, naturally she is very respectful and careful to serve, and nothing has gone wrong.

The palace ladies helped her make up, and helped her to sit down slowly at the table, and just after the breakfast was set, she heard Pei Zheng's big grinning voice: "Is my sister-in-law eating?" That's such a coincidence, my brother is hungry now, or will he be here at my sister-in-law? ”

She raised her head and saw Pei Zheng walking in with a smile, so she pouted in disgust and said, "I can't settle." ”

"The emperor's brother ordered someone to wake me up early in the morning, and my sister-in-law refused to give me even a breakfast, I am really jealous!" Pei Zheng unceremoniously picked up a piece of chestnut cake and threw it into his mouth, and looked at her pitifully: "It's a shame that my brother gave my sister-in-law so many precious word books!" ”

Speaking of the book, Su Ying had a stomach full of bitter water about Pei Zhao to spit out to him: "Don't you know, your imperial brother flipped through the book called "His Majesty's Crossing Wife" that day, but he laughed at us, saying that the girl sang and danced at every turn, and the tricks she used were also very stupid, and only the faint king would like her." ”

When Pei Zheng heard this, he really shared the same enemy with him: "The imperial brother has never been very interesting, and my sister-in-law has suffered." ”

"Actually, I don't think those stories are very reasonable, but in the end, you sent them, with your taste...... Of course I can understand you, but if he doesn't like it, he just smiles in his heart, so why do you have to say it. Don't you say? ”

Pei Zheng was silent for a long time, and looked at her sadly: "Sister-in-law, I seem to think that you and the imperial brother colluded in advance to humiliate me." ”

"How can this be called humiliation?" She put on a very modest smile: "This is clearly the warm care of the elders for the juniors, do you feel it?" ”

Pei Zheng wanted to cry and shook his head without tears: "I can't feel it." ”

After breakfast, Pei Zheng saw that she was bored, so he accompanied her to go out for a walk. There are many maple trees on the mountain, and in autumn, the leaves turn red in turn. At first, the emerald green is mixed with light red, and then it is rendered in turn, which is concubine red, red red, silver vermilion, alizarin red and purple red, as if it is a cluster of flames that are burning vigorously, igniting the great scenery of the entire Lishan Mountain.

Pei Zheng picked a red leaf and played with it in his hand, his face was rarely calm, as if he was thinking about something, and after a while, he smiled at Su Jin: "The red leaves here are very good, but it reminds me of some past events." ”

Su Ying said: "What is the past? ”

"It was still a few years ago, and I, my brother, and Pei Yu accompanied my father to Lishan. The autumn leaves that day were as they are now, and they were so beautiful that they were red. My sister-in-law should remember that my mother's favorite thing in the past was red, and it happened that the time to return to the palace was not far away, so I thought that although my mother had never been to Lishan, if I brought back the red leaves of Lishan to her, she would be very happy. ”

Su Ying knew that his mother, Concubine Shu, was actually not favored, well, if you think about it carefully, Concubine Shu and her are so close to each other, which also proves that the first emperor's vision has always disliked women like them. Seeing Pei Zheng's expression quite complicated, he said softly: "I don't think this matter is a happy thing, if you don't want to say it, then don't say it again." ”

Pei Zheng smiled: "After so many years, even if I was unhappy at the time, I forgot about it now." ”

Whether this sentence "forgot" is true or false, even he can't tell the difference. He only remembered that the red leaves of that year burned all over Lishan, and the eleven or twelve-year-old boy spent a whole day picking the most beautiful red leaves for his mother's concubine, and the interior officer who served him since he was a child told him that he had to soak the leaves in salt water as soon as possible, so that he could preserve them until he returned to the palace, but before he returned to his residence, he met one of the most favored concubines at that time.

He didn't remember the rank and appearance and name of that concubine for a long time, because his father's favorite concubines were always one after another. He only remembered that the concubine glanced at the red leaves in his hand from above, and said to his father in a coquettish voice: "Your Majesty, this bouquet of red leaves in the hands of the fifth prince is very good, and the concubine also said when she got up early this morning that the color of the bouquet of tea and plum in the palace and the flower bottle do not match very well, so it is better to ......."

At that time, he was too young to understand, she was the favorite concubine of the six palaces, almost to the wind and rain, why did she have to compete with her mother for an ordinary bunch of red leaves? Now he realized that in fact, the woman didn't want to fight for anything, but she had been in a high position for a long time, but whenever she saw something she liked, she must get it.

He is not like Pei Zhao, the brother of the Third Emperor, although he is the least liked by his father, but he has made great achievements on the battlefield early, and he is not like Pei Yu, who can be praised by his father by writing a poem casually. There are so many princes in the palace, he is just the most inconspicuous one, the most memorable moment in his life, that is, at that time, he stubbornly refused to bow his head for a bunch of red leaves.

It's a pity that his stubbornness is just useless, and in the end, maybe his father felt that he dared to openly contradict him, offended Tianwei, and in a fit of rage, he wanted to pass the court staff, or the inner servant hugged his father's leg and begged for mercy with tears in his eyes, and mentioned that his mother was from the Taiyuan Wang family without a trace, which was counted.

Pei Zheng still remembers that after her father left, the concubine proudly trampled on the bunch of red leaves taken from him, and said proudly: "What about the daughter of the family, she is not favored by His Majesty in the palace, and she is also a defeated subordinate of the palace." ”

He will not forget how Pei Yu sneered at himself arrogantly when he wiped his tears and walked back. Although Pei Yu wants to call him "fifth brother" in front of people, but the two of them are actually only a month apart, Pei Yu has been pampered since he was a child, and he never puts him in his eyes, he can usually tolerate these, but today he insulted his mother, but he couldn't bear it anymore. At the age of twelve or thirteen, he can't talk with his fists, but he is not like Pei Yu, who has to be trained by the general himself, and is firmly held down by the surrounding palace people who seem to be pulling a frame, so he naturally has the upper hand, so he has to let Pei Yu kick his body heavily with his feet wearing cowhide boots.

If it weren't for the sudden appearance of the Third Emperor Brother and dragged him up, I am afraid that he would have died at Pei Yu's feet. At that time, the Third Emperor Brother was only a fifteen or sixteen-year-old half-grown child, but his eyebrows were already a little cold and steady. Everyone in the palace said that the life of the three emperor brothers was extremely poor, but it was a great ominous, and they had been fighting outside for many years, and they were all surrounded by a kind of breathtaking spirit. He was scared in his heart, because he had never spoken to him much on weekdays, and Pei Yu must have been afraid of him as well, so he stopped and lowered his eyes deferentially: "Third brother." ”

It was the first time since he grew up that he was afraid of a person more than he was afraid of his father, especially when he saw that Pei Zhao only glanced at it lightly, he taught Fang to hold down his few small yellow doors and fell to the ground in fright, and with a cold face, he ordered someone to find a court order and send them down one by one. Pei Yu naturally couldn't stand such anger, but he was afraid that Pei Zhao would be so scared, and he didn't have the courage to say sarcastic, so he had to hate and say: "Brother Chen, I will definitely go to see my father and the emperor later, and tell the third emperor brother what he did today." ”

These words made him very uneasy in his heart, but Pei Zhao was unmoved, and after Pei Yu left, he said lightly to him: "If Your Majesty declares that you will be guilty, you can just blame me for the matter." ”

Why "Your Majesty" and not "Father"? He was very puzzled in his heart, but more of his gratitude and trust to Pei Zhao, seeing that he was leaving, he subconsciously stopped him, and whether he wanted to listen or not, he told him all the bitterness in his stomach.

In fact, now that I think about it, I was really ignorant back then, Mrs. Cuihua has always been quite cold to Pei Zhao, but she said so much in front of him how the mother concubine was gentle and loving to her. But Pei Zhao didn't seem to care about anything at that time, and he couldn't hurt him anything, but said to himself lightly: "If you have a heart, even if it is the most ordinary thing, your mother will be very happy." ”