"Brother Jiu, I brought it here!" Gao Yang pulled Wen Qingwu and walked towards Li Zhi.

At this time, Li Zhi stood behind Jinyang with her hands behind her back, watching her sit on a futon and pick plum petals. Hearing Gao Yang's voice, he turned his head.

Wen Qingwu found that he hadn't seen him for a few days, and Li Zhi was getting better and better.

Although he is a man, his skin is better than snow. It is easy to keep in the palace all the year round, and there is a little more quietness that is rare for ordinary men. Today, he is draped in a big silk with silver silk edges, and his hair is tied with a jade crown on his head.

It's amazing.

However, Wen Qingwu didn't look at it much. After following Gao Yang closer, he lowered his head and avoided his gaze as a sign of respect, and then saluted a few people one by one.

"Brother Jiu, you said that if I bring someone over, you will give me the little monk's scriptures." Gao Yang said to Li Zhi, his voice was not disguised, and others could hear it very clearly in this quiet place.

When Li Zhi heard this, his cheeks turned red for a moment, "Seventeen, what nonsense are you talking about, didn't the fifth sister ask you to call it!" As he spoke, he turned his head and glanced at Wen Qingwu's tightly bandaged hand.

It's all bandaged like this, and my father won't let me go, and he stays there to serve.

Then he withdrew his gaze as if nothing had happened.

Changle was watching Jin Yang make wine from the side, and when he heard the movement, he looked up at Li Zhi, and then at Wen Qingwu who was pulled by Gao Yang.

Gao Yang was puzzled, "Why did the fifth sister say it, don't you know what you said?" ”

"Misheard you." Li Zhi didn't look back this time, he only left a back for Gao Yang with his hands behind his back.

Gao Yang was even more dazed, and wanted to argue but was stopped by Changle, "It's me, Gao Yang, you heard it wrong." She said, looking at Li Zhi quietly. said to Gao Yang, "Since Mei Niang is here, let's make wine together." ”

The scriptures you want, the one translated by the little monk of Huichang Temple? ”

Gao Yang was still wondering if it was really because he had heard it wrong, and he was still thinking about it while hesitating, and he heard Changle's words. So he immediately retracted his thoughts and nodded, "Yes, yes, that's it!" ”

"I'll send someone to bring it to you when I get back." After Changle finished speaking, he instructed the slave next to him to bring another wine jar and wine-making things, and put them in front of Wen Qingwu, "Mei Niang, you can also brew a jar, you are the master." ”

In fact, these didn't have any effect on her, and when she heard Changle's words, she responded respectfully, "Yes." ”

Chengyang, who was sitting on the side, turned his head and looked at Wen Qingwu, "Master's hand is like this, maybe brewed?" ”

"Yes." Wen Qingwu also sat down with him, "It's just a little slower." ”

She said, moving her hands. The hand was wrapped into a bear's paw, but the imperial doctor remembered her identity, and probably thought that she would serve the emperor, so he only bandaged the palm of his hand and three injured fingers.

The other fingers are still exposed, and they can barely do fine work.

It's just slow.

Take the wine Gu slowly, scoop the wine slowly, pick the plum petals slowly, and clean the petals even more slowly. Even the weighing of grains is very slow.

It just so happened that she didn't have a slave with her, Liuji and Liu Ye didn't follow her, Fan Yunxian was a slave and maid of Zichen Hall after all, and it was not good to follow her out now.

In this way, all the slow things can only be done by herself.

Li Zhi has been standing behind his son, but all his attention is in the afterglow.

And in his spare light, there is only Wen Qingwu alone. Sitting behind the wine jar with his eyebrows lowered, he slowly and delicately made plum wine. The plum blossom branches that had been weighed down by the snowdrifts lay across her ears, and the wind blew up the snowflakes on the branches.

Tumbling down, piled on her shoulders.

She raised her hand and gently stroked the snow off her shoulder. Then he looked sideways and looked at a plum petal that had been caressed along with the snow.

Leaning slightly, a few bai nen fingers emerging from a ball of white cloth twisted the petal and looked at it in front of his eyes. Then I put it in the plum petals that I want to make sake.

Everything is so natural and beautiful, quiet and tranquil.

It's as if she's been sitting here the whole time, blending into the scene.

But he knew she had just arrived.

Li Zhi curled the corners of his lips imperceptibly, and his faint smile was almost invisible. She's always like this, and she can easily steal the attention of others.

The casual gestures are full of beauty and tranquility washed by the years.

It's like...... Just like the first time he saw her, in the flower field full of jade feathers, she stepped on the clear stream with her trouser legs, and the sunlight was vivid.

It was also at that glance that he seemed to look into his heart.

In the afterglow, she was still doing it, using tweezers to hold a petal flower and wash it back and forth in the water. It's just that it's very inconvenient because of the bandage in my hand.

Li Zhi changed his mind, then took a deep breath, stepped forward, and walked to Wen Qingwu's side, "I'll help you." He said, but did not crouch down.

It means that it is at the same temperature.

Wen Qingwu still caught Li Zhi's small action.

There was a slight surprise in my heart.

Many people in the palace, as long as their status is higher than her, no one has ever asked her what she means. The tone of the mouth is inquiring, but it is almost just an announcement.

If you want to do anything, you can almost decide it for her directly.

Emperor Zhende is, Li Ke is, Yang Zhaoyi is, and even Gao Yang is.

Wen Qingwu's strange thoughts were only for a moment, and he put them away.

She leaned sideways to avoid it, "Your Highness, I can do it myself." ”

"I know you can. It's just too slow. Li Zhi said, Wen Qingwu didn't agree, so he really didn't squat down, still standing, his eyes swept over a few wine jars next to him, "At your speed, I'm afraid that you won't be able to make a jar of wine after the Laba banquet today." ”

Wen Qingwu followed Li Zhi's gaze and also looked at the things next to him.

In fact, she never thought about making a jar of good wine. But it's just brewed, as for whether it can be brewed well, it depends on the situation.

I won't tell Li Zhi about this. Hearing this, he said, "I'm not in a hurry." ”

Li Zhi looked at Wen Qingwu, who was unwilling to help herself, and felt a little depressed in her heart.

Looked sideways at the snow-covered branch in her ear. Retracting his gaze and walking around her, he struck the branch as if he had accidentally hit it.

Suddenly, the snow was sprinkled on Wen Qingwu's body.

Not only did it spill on her shoulder, but it also fell directly into her neck. A cold chill came out of her neck, and Wen Qingwu was startled. Li Zhi leaned over to help her pat the snow on her body, "I'm sorry, Mei Niang." He apologized as he patted it.

Wen Qingwu's hands were really inconvenient, and the snow falling on his neck was really uncomfortable. I didn't bring a maid, not to mention, the people next to me only cared about the plum blossom wine in their hands, and no one paid attention to her.

When she hesitated, Li Zhi had already gently patted the snow on her neck.

Feeling that the coolness on his neck was much less, Wen Qingwu wanted to avoid his body and wanted to stay away from Li Zhi, so he heard Li Zhi say as if he had unintentionally: "The snow in the capital is big, and the snow in Longnan is also big." I don't know when the third brother will come back. ”

Wen Qingwu paused for a moment, and looked up at Li Zhi, "What did His Highness say?" "It's been a long time since she's heard from Li Ke.

Even after going to Yang Zhaoyi's place that day, I didn't hear her tell me again.

When she heard Li Ke's news at first glance, she definitely wanted to hear a few more sentences.

Li Zhi's heart became more and more depressed.

Looking at the little snow on Wen Qingwu's collar on the other side, he didn't want to get it for her.

"Third brother, I went to Longnan." Li Zhi said, retracting his gaze at Wen Qingwu, "Mei Niang, don't you know?" ”

Went to Longnan?

Wen Qingwu didn't respond, only frowned and was a little puzzled. Thinking about something else.

What did Li Ke do when he went to Longnan? It is not a place over which he rules.

While wondering, he moved his body to turn around and sit upright.

The sudden chill from the other side of her neck brought her back to her senses, and she turned her head to look at the other side of her neck, only to find that there was still a little snow on the collar on it, and because of her own actions, the pile of snow that fell on the collar also slipped into her neck.

The instant chill made her take a breath, and then she shook her body very uncomfortably.

Bai Xue, who fell into his neck, naturally wouldn't let Li Zhi help him get it, even if he came, he wouldn't agree. I could only hold my head and endure the cold cold, so that the temperature of my body warmed the white snow until it melted into water, and then soaked in my clothes.

Li Zhi just stood by and watched quietly, with his head stuffed and his eyebrows raised.

After the coolness was completely adapted, Wen Qingwu eased up, and then turned his head to look at Li Zhi, "What did His Royal Highness King Wu do in Longnan?" She asked, shifting away from the next place.

Li Zhi looked at the position she had moved out of, and suppressed that she didn't want to sit down and help.

Standing in place, hesitating between wanting and not wanting to, Wen Qingwu turned his head to look at him again, "Your Highness? She called.

The voice carried a calmness that was rare to others, but when I heard Li Zhi's ears, there was a little bit of charm and flirtation that could never be heard in the voices of others.

She's the first time ...... Call him that.

Your Highness.

It's just His Royal Highness, there is no prefix of King Jin.

It's a lot more intimate than before.

Between thinking and not wanting, before the final decision was made in his mind, his body had already squatted down and sat next to her.

Pick up the tweezers and start to clean the plum petals for her piece by piece. Meticulous and slow.

"The heavy snow in Longnan closed the road, and several towns were badly snowstormed, and the local officials couldn't cover it, so they asked the court to send someone over." Li Zhi lowered his head and frowned, looked at the plum petals in his hands, and cleaned them very seriously. In comparison, his words were a little more careless, "It's the New Year's Festival right now, Longnan is remote, and it will take two months to go back and forth." No one wanted to go, so three of them recommended themselves and went there. He spoke, slowly, gently and calmly.

I don't know if it's because I've been with Li Ke for a long time.

Wen Qingwu looked at Li Zhi who was speaking, and actually felt a little bit of Li Ke's feeling from him.

But it's a little different.

She couldn't say exactly what was different.

Li Zhi felt Wen Qingwu's gaze and turned his head to look at her. His eyes met, "What's wrong?" ”

Wen Qingwu shook his head, then looked away, fiddling with the wine Gu in his hand, but he couldn't calm down.

Why did Li Ke go to Longnan?

The snow disaster didn't return to him, so why did he run over? I didn't even say hello to myself.

She had some doubts in her heart, and was thinking about whether something happened in the middle that she didn't know, and then heard Li Zhi ask beside her, "Mei Niang, do you know why the third brother went to Longnan?" ”

Wen Qingwu turned her head to look at Li Zhi, how would she know. So he shook his head, "Your Highness knows?" ”

He liked to hear her call "Your Highness". The voices softened in two, "I'm not sure, I heard from someone." ”

Li Zhi's temperament is not a mouthy person in Wen Qingwu's opinion. Although I don't have much contact with him, I can probably see that he is not a person who can be false.

If it could come out of his mouth, at least it wouldn't be footless.

Wen Qingwu listened attentively and listened to Li Zhi's next words.

"It seems to be the daughter of Yang Chengkang, a scholar in the middle school." Li Zhi looked left and right, lowered his voice before replying.

Wen Qingwu's face sank, and it was a moment of change that returned to its original state, looked at Li Zhi and asked, "The daughter of the Zhongshu Sheren?" Which one is it, what does it mean. ”

She asked, her tone calm.

It's like the curiosity of gossip between ordinary palace people in the palace.

"Yang, the daughter of Yang Chengkang, a member of the Chinese Academy, heard that she is seventeen years old this year and is not married." Li Zhi said in a suppressed voice. Often when people talk, the quieter the voice, the closer the two people will be.

This is no exception.

Li Zhi lowered his voice like a child talking little, and Wen Qingwu had all his thoughts on Li Ke in his mouth, and he didn't want to stretch it. Then she leaned close to him and listened carefully to his words.

The winter weather is extremely cold, and if you exit it, you will immediately be frozen into a cloud of mist by the winter wind, which will spread around your mouth.

"I heard...... That Yang is extremely good-looking. And yes, Father, is a very favorite person. Li Zhi said very slowly, word by word, word by word.

As a result, the white mist that erupted from his mouth became thicker and thicker, and the more difficult it was to disperse. As he spoke, he watched as his own white mist sprayed into her earlobes, and then around her neck and stroked her hair.

Turning his gaze to her pale earlobes.

It is like a clay embryo burned in a kiln, which is quickly cooled into drop-shaped white porcelain after dripping, and then applied with a layer of glossy glaze.

Look, I want to go up and take a sip.

Li Zhi blushed and was warm.

Wen Qingwu didn't notice it at all, she looked at the plum blossom tree in front of her fixedly, and the plum blossoms on the tree were picked up by the wind and swayed down with the branches.

His mind was full of what Li Zhi said.

Li Ke went to Longnan for another woman.

The other, an unmarried, beautiful woman.

It took a while to get out of that dullness and sadness. Then he took a deep breath and quickly suppressed the sourness in his heart.

But one person's words, no wind and no shadow, who knows how it came out.

In this way, Wen Qingwu felt ridiculous after coming back to his senses.

A sentence with no beginning or end, and I have never even heard anyone mention it, so when I heard it, my heart made waves.

The moment I heard it, it was as if all the blood in my body had been drained.

She had never felt this way, and even in the face of the ruin of the country and the collapse of the family, the emotions were only despair.

And Fang Cai, those helplessness, the helplessness that engulfed her for a while, made her almost break out in a cold sweat.

She hadn't been so frightened before.

Now come to your senses...... Is. Wen Qingwu held his forehead, and then sighed.

What's wrong with this, just because of a word from others, it's such a big emotion. Li Ke won't, she should believe him.

Definitely not.

At least she shouldn't have questioned him for something like this. Don't say that it's just a casual sentence, that is, if you have a serious situation, you really want to find another woman.

She should also ask in person and then listen to him.

Since you have chosen him, it doesn't matter if you love him or not. At least she should be trusted and calm.

He lives in the mouth of others. She wanted to hear him for herself.

After Wen Qingwu figured it out, his heart felt much more comfortable. Turning his head to look at Li Zhi, he suddenly looked up, his cheeks were red, and he looked at her with some panic.

It's like a child who has done something bad and gets caught.

Wen Qingwu looked behind him blankly, and then looked at his side, "What's wrong with His Royal Highness King Jin?" ”

Here we go again, His Royal Highness King Jin.

Li Zhi's panic quickly stabilized, and he shook his head at Wen Qingwu, "It's nothing." ”

I don't want to tell her about other people's things anymore. He turned his gaze to look at the few wine Gu on the desk, and a thought suddenly popped up in his heart, and he turned his head to look at Wen Qingwu and said tentatively, "You will make a jar of wine this year?" ”

It just so happened that now Wen Qingwu didn't want to inquire about Li Ke from other people's mouths, and if he wanted to listen, he would go to the Ayayi Hall to inquire. You can even find a way to set the emperor's words.

What can Li Zhi, a child who stays at home, know.

It is also the words of everyone who listens to them, and it is not known how credible they are.

"Isn't it one man who makes an altar?" Wen Qingwu took Li Zhi's words and continued.

"That's not it." Li Zhi shook his head, "It's that each master makes at least one altar, at least." He was happy because Wen Qingwu no longer continued to ask the third brother, and even his tone was a little more brisk than Fang Cai.

At least the conversation with her is no longer only about other men.

They can also say other things, and they can also say things related to the two of them.

"That's right." Wen Qingwu responded, looking at the wine Gu in his hand, "It's just that I can probably only make one jar." As she spoke, she shook her bandaged palm at Li Zhi.

Li Zhi laughed.

Although Wen Qingwu's action was very natural, it didn't go beyond it at all.

But he really likes her like this.

Wen Qingwu was baffled by Li Zhi's sudden laughter, so he casually quipped, "The prince is very happy that I was injured?" ”

"No, no." Li Zhi hurriedly explained. He thought Wen Qingwu was telling the truth, and after explaining, he added, "Not really, don't think about it, I just thought of other things." Otherwise, I wouldn't have bothered to let Gao Yang go to my father and bring you over, no. ”

When the words fell, Wen Qingwu raised her eyebrows and looked at Li Zhi. With puzzlement.

Li Zhi paused.

only then did he realize that he had lost his words.

In Wen Qingwu's puzzled gaze, he suddenly panicked. I'm afraid that my mind that I have hidden for so long will be seen, as if a small box full of secrets has been overturned.

subconsciously lied, "It's the third brother, the third brother told me before leaving." Let me protect you. ”

Wen Qingwu was just puzzled, but after hearing Li Zhi's words, he was much relieved. Li Ke's words really did such a thing. Just like he instructed Yang Zhaoyi to tell the crown princess, it is not impossible to ask this younger brother who has a good relationship with him.

But after being relieved, she suddenly lifted her heart and turned her head to look at Li Zhi, "Why did His Royal Highness King Wu ask you to protect me?" ”

Li Ke instructed Yang Zhaoyi to tell the crown princess, because they all knew their relationship with him.

For a long time, in her opinion, she thought that Li Zhi regarded her relationship with Li Ke as a better friend.

So I was always close, and I never had any doubts.

But friends don't want to ask someone to protect them.

How to think about it, how wrong.

Li Zhi was choked for a moment, and then two slightly raised narrow eyes looked at Wen Qingwu and said strangely, "Aren't Mei Niang and the third brother good friends?" ”

Wen Qingwu pondered and nodded.

"That's it." Unlike Wen Qingwu, it seems that in Li Zhi's opinion, this is really not a strange thing, "Then what's wrong with asking me to protect you before leaving?" ”

Wen Qingwu was a little puzzled and still had doubts. But for a while, she wasn't sure if Li Ke would do this.

There are reasons not to do it, and there are reasons not to do it. Do...... It seems likely, too.

After all, unlike the crown princess and Yang Zhaoyi, Li Zhi is a prince, and the occasions for his appearance are not the same.

Looking at Wen Qingwu's hesitant appearance, Li Zhi hurriedly added, "Isn't it natural for a man to protect a woman!" ”

She used to take it for granted.

I don't think so.

She doesn't need anyone to protect her.

But Li Zhi's words ...... Still a kid after all. Wen Qingwu wouldn't tell him much, so he didn't think much about it, "Although there is nothing wrong with what you said, but next time His Royal Highness King Wu tells the prince like this, you will directly refuse." ”

Hearing that Li Zhi was inexplicable when he rejected the third brother, he felt very comfortable in his heart. I couldn't help but ask, "Oh? Why. ”

"Because men and women don't kiss." Wen Qingwu replied with kindness, and Li Zhi's action of cleaning the plum petals in his hand stopped. Fang Cai's brisk face sank again.

He did not answer, noncommittal.

Wen Qingwu never thought that Li Zhi would answer herself. I only do what I have to do.

It was quiet again.

Halfway through, Li Zhi turned her head a few times, and Wen Qingwu was quietly doing what she was doing, as if she was air next to her.

He did it sullenly for a while, and found that if he hadn't taken the initiative, she would have made up her mind, and she wouldn't have said a word to herself.

Even if it's just a word!

After Li Zhi sulked, he gave up.

Isn't that kind of personality attractive? It's not just for him, it's for his father. Except for what you should do in your service, you will never say a word.

Thinking about it like this, it seems to feel a lot better.

He moved his body and moved a little towards Wen Qingwu, "You're almost done with this jar of wine?" ”

But he has already finished a wave of sulking, and others don't know about it at all. I don't know at all. From beginning to end, he has been doing what he has done seriously.

As if he was not as important as the spoonful of grains in her hand.

"It's coming." Wen Qingwu didn't look back when he heard Li Zhi's words, and continued to lower his head and play with the spoon in his hand.