And I don't know why, since she put on this mask, Bai Yucheng's eyes seem to be very gentle when she looks at her. Although he was so gentle before, Ji Lianmei's intuition was that the girl with this face must be someone who was very important to Bai Yucheng.

Thinking of this, her mood couldn't help but feel a little low, and her chest was also depressed. She knew why this mood came from, but she didn't want to admit it.

Bai Yucheng led her to an elegant room, where Zhilan was planted and purple smoke burned incense.

"This is where you live from now on, my house is in Qinxue Garden, and it is fifty steps straight from here. I'm afraid that your name will reveal your identity, so from today on, as soon as you leave the Prince's Mansion, your name will be changed to Xiwan, how about it? ”

"Wait," said Ji Lianmei, "I have no objection to the name, but I am a slave in your house, not a guest." I should be living with Yuruo and them. ”

Bai Yucheng thought for a moment and said, "Okay, in a while, I'll let Yuruo also move here to live with you." ”

Hey? This is not the same as the answer I imagined.

Bai Yucheng saw Ji Lianmei's puzzled eyes and explained, "Didn't you say that you want to be in the same place with Yuruo and them?" ”

Well, it seems like that, but that's not what I want to say. Why didn't I move out but you brought someone in with me?

"Go back, I will let Yuruo tell you the rules of the Prince's Mansion one by one. You have to listen carefully, the prince's mansion is different from when you were in the prince's mansion, if there is anything wrong with it, I will punish it. Bai Yucheng gently pinched Ji Lianmei's cheek, smiled gently, and then went out.

Ji Lianmei closed the door and tore the mask off her face, finding that her cheeks were already hot.

Did this guy be so flirtatious before? Ji Lianmei patted her cheek hard, as if she wanted to slap the heat away.

In the evening, Yuruo carried a large bag and a small bag to stay in the private room.

"Princess, I didn't expect the two of us to be able to stay together every day like before." Yuruo happily rubbed against Ji Lianmei.

"Okay, don't call me princess in the future, just call me Xiwan. After all, I will also be a servant girl who will work with you in the future, so I am called ..... I'm afraid it will mislead others. ”

"Xiwan ......." After Yuruo heard this name, the two eyebrows furrowed slightly, and said, "This seems to be the name of a playmate of His Highness's childhood, I have heard His Highness mention it once or twice." However, the girl died as early as when His Highness went to Wu when he was seven years old. ”

"Is that so......" Ji Lianmei bit her lip and asked, "Yuruo, what else do you know about this Xiwan girl?" ”

"Hmm...... The other slaves are not clear, only that every year at the time of spring, His Royal Highness will go to the Valley of Hundred Flowers in the song to mourn Miss Xiwan. Yuruo replied fifteen-ten.

She has never experienced the love between men and women, and she doesn't know that Bai Yucheng's deep affection for Xiwan and Ji Lianmei's eyes reveal imperceptible sadness.

I have never fallen in love with anyone, I am not jealous, I don't cry, I don't care, I'm not afraid of losing, I'm not afraid of leaving, I'm not afraid of being deceived and betrayed, I'm not afraid of being amorous, but after knowing you, I don't feel like me anymore. Actually, you didn't promise me anything, and I don't know how I feel about you.

Abandon everything else, just talk about Fengyue, you actually owe me nothing........

This short period of the past, Ji Lianmei was depressed for a long time.

Push open the window, it's a new day.

Although she is still haunted by the deaths of Ji Jingchen and Ji Xia, the weight of revenge in her heart is not as heavy as before. Such a struggle for the throne and battlefield scheming are also for survival in the final analysis. , she can't use the values of modern people to deny the way of life of the ancients, nor can she take revenge on one person for all her faults. Moreover, she can't compete with Bai Yucheng, so she will compromise and live in obscurity. As for that Xiwan girl, who hasn't had a piece of the past? Don't bother with this.

One more day of life will give you more hope of going home. Therefore, even if she is under the fence and suffers humiliation, she will definitely work hard to live.

There is not much red tape in the Prince's Mansion, and there are no groups of domestic servants, it is more like a place where a leisurely guest living in seclusion in the city. Except for Situ Che and other guards, three men, three women and six domestic servants, there is no one else. The rich son's common account office, chef, and flower farmer, these jobs are all undertaken by Bai Yucheng.

Sometimes Ji Lianmei really admires Bai Yucheng, obviously a prince, but she doesn't have the shelf of a prince at all, but she also likes to do these rough jobs done by ordinary people and take pleasure in it.

"Yuruo, what do I need to do?" Ji Lianmei changed into the coarse linen clothes that Yuruo brought yesterday and asked.

"Hmm...... Your Highness said you don't have to do anything, just watch us work here, or you can go to His Highness's study to grind. ”

Grind? She is very handy at doing this, but what is the difference between this and when she was a princess. If it is placed in modern times, she will definitely not be able to ask for such a leisurely and leisurely job with food and accommodation. But now it's different, she doesn't want to accept a little favor from Bai Yucheng, otherwise, she won't even have the last bit of arrogant stubbornness.

Ji Lianmei hurriedly ran to Bai Yucheng's study, forgot to knock on the door and went straight in.

At this time, it was already summer, but there was a spring in front of her.

The young man's black hair was scattered idly, his wide-sleeved robe, the belt was lightly divided, and the cloud clothes were secretly dissolved, revealing a beautiful and delicate collarbone and skin as smooth as white jade. The jade folding fan in his hand fanned slightly, and he lazily carried an ancient book. Leaning on a beauty, it is like a picture scroll.

Oh my God, if this man's appearance is demonic, he will not lose to the beauties of the country and the city. Ji Lianmei forgot to look away for a while.

"Hey, how long are you going to star?" Bai Yucheng couldn't help laughing out loud when she saw her expression of being seduced by beauty.

Ji Lianmei then remembered what it meant to be indecent and disrespectful.

She hurriedly turned around to cover her eyes, and muttered inarticulately: "I, I, I just came here and asked you to arrange some work for me, I, I, I didn't see anything just now." ”

Bai Yucheng gently leaned into her ear and said, "Your job is to eat well, sleep well, and stay by my side well, so that's enough." ”

Staying by your side? How can I rely on you without any scruples.

"Bai Yucheng, let's keep our distance in the future. I am only your pawn, your prisoner in this game, and now, a poor creature living under your protection, you don't need to be kind to me, and I won't be grateful to you for it. Ji Lianmei lowered her head and said.

I'm afraid I won't have the courage to love you anymore, but I've lost even the courage to hate you.

"In the future, you will be like Yuruo and them, and you will call me Your Highness." When Bai Yucheng heard her words, his eyes gradually became cold, and he sat back at the desk in his clothes, "After you go out, close the door." ”

"Oh......." Ji Lianmei didn't look back, groped for the door frame with her memory, and closed the door with difficulty with her back.

It's so dangerous, it's really a knife on the head of the color word, why didn't I find out that this man who is as clear as a lotus when I got along with him before also has such a charming side?

Because Bai Yucheng still didn't give her a job, Ji Lianmei could only take a broom and sweep the floor while wandering around the huge prince's mansion. was wandering around with his head down in such a boring way, but accidentally bumped into a person's arms.

She touched the corner of her forehead that had been hit a little painfully, and said sorry softly.

The person who came was a young man who had just turned twenty, thin and weak, with long flowing hair pulled up with a jade crown, a black and white robe covering his body that looked very wide, two bent eyebrows, and a clear face. It's like a male version of Lin Daiyu.

This person is Bai Yucheng's strategist Mianfu, who was originally a hermit who returned to the mountains and forests, and was invited out of the mountain by Bai Yucheng eight years ago. Although both of them were only twelve years old at the time, Wen Taowu was no less than an adult who had been in the court for many years. Mian Fu greatly admired Bai Yucheng's ideals and ambitions and personality of choosing people to kill, so he was willing to go out of the mountain to participate in this dispute.

"It doesn't matter." Although his voice was cold, it was also soft and weak, "The girl has some eyes, but she just came to the palace?" and who is the surname, and where does it come from? ”

Ji Lianmei remembered Bai Yucheng's advice in front of the prince's mansion, organized her words slightly, bowed slightly, and said: "Slave Xiwan, Wu Yue, Your Highness passed through the war-torn place, and saw that the slave was helpless, so he took the slave back to the house. ”

"Xiwan........ Your name is also Xiwan? The young man's eyes showed confusion.

"Also?" Ji Lianmei asked rhetorically.

"Oh, it's fine. Miss Xiwan, since you have come to the Prince's Mansion, please abide by your duty. His Royal Highness has always been suspicious of people, and he is not suspicious of employing people. The people who can enter the Prince's Mansion are all people whom His Royal Highness the Crown Prince trusts very much, and I hope you can also be like all of us, swearing allegiance to His Highness. Mian Fu smiled kindly at Ji Lianmei, and rushed to Bai Yucheng's study.

Bai Yucheng was waiting in the study, and as soon as Mian Fu Fang entered the room, Bai Yucheng smiled and teased: "Mr. Mian Fu has always been punctual, why is he half an hour slower now?" Isn't there a beauty blocking the way, is the gentleman attracted by beauty? ”

"Your Highness still likes to joke so much, but this time, Mianfu really ran into a beauty blocking the way." Mian Fu seemed to be accustomed to it, patted all his dust and brushed his sleeves, sat opposite Bai Yucheng casually, and poured himself a cup of hot tea in the teacup that had already been prepared.

"Oh?"

"Coincidentally, this girl's name is also Xiwan."

Bai Yucheng's action of sorting out the book stopped for a moment, his eyes wandered away for a moment, and then he spoke: "Well, she is my new maidservant. However, she is not Xiwan, her name is Ji Lianmei, the eldest princess of Liu Guo, my princess. ”

"The crown princess of the great Song Dynasty, how could you be arranged by you to be a servant?"

"Sir is so smart, how can he not know the intentions of this king."

"Your Highness is doing this to protect her. After all, Princess Liu Guo's identity is too eye-catching, I am afraid that the second prince will use this as an excuse to make things difficult for His Royal Highness, thus hurting Princess Liu Guo. Mian Fu explained Bai Yucheng's intentions in one word, and then said, "Mian Fu has a matter, I don't know what His Highness's intentions are, and I ask His Highness for guidance." ”

"You say."

"Why did you name her Xiwan? Is it because you haven't completely forgotten what happened thirteen years ago? ”

"Oh, how could I forget such a big event? Wan'er, I also died in that accident, I didn't protect her well...."Bai Yucheng drank all the tea in the teacup, with a sad and remorse on his face that he had never felt before, "However, Wan'er is Wan'er, and Lianmei is Lianmei, I will not compensate for my remorse for Wan'er on Lianmei, after all, such compensation is meaningless at all." ”