East Palace Study.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was still dressed in the white clothes that had been changed on the ship, with a deep uneasiness condensed between his eyebrows, and he was writing with a pen.

When I got closer, I saw that he was writing the word "peace", and the floor around the desk was full of used rice paper, each of which was full of "peace", and the handwriting was strong and powerful, but the pen was very messy, because each stroke carried the writer's panic and fear.

The one who helped him grind was a well-behaved little palace maid, she had been with the prince for many years, but she had never seen him so flustered.

In my memory, many times, although His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was ignored by everyone, he had a knife on his neck, and he would not frown at all, because he knew that indifference was his only weapon, and he could ignore everyone's prejudice and bullying.

But now, he was flustered as if his heart had been lost somewhere, and it was strange.

Suddenly, the eunuch's sharp shout came from a distance, "Come out,...... It's out! ”

The little palace maid was surprised to see that His Royal Highness threw away the pen in an instant, and rushed to the door of the palace, sweeping away all the royal majesty in the past.

He walked to the door of the hall, and sure enough, he saw Xiao Qian and another guard carrying Xiao Pingzi covered in blood on a stretcher, walking towards him.

Among them, the little eunuch who was also following him to do chores in the palace ran to him with a look of surprise and told him, "Your Highness, Xiao Pingzi is fine, the people from the Shen Criminal Division know that it is His Highness's people, and His Highness has told them in advance, they are very measured, but they have suffered a little skin trauma, and they are not in the way." ”

He frowned and pushed the little eunuch away, staring at Xiao Pingzi on the stretcher without blinking, closing his eyes tightly, only to feel that his whole heart fell back into his chest, but he was held tightly by one hand, and he was forced to chill.

beckoned directly to Xiao Qian to carry the person to the inner hall, his own bed.

Xiao Qian was stunned, and finally took another guard to do so without saying a word.

When the inner sanctum was finally the only one left, he dared to raise his hand to touch her, and his fingertips stayed under her nose for a moment, and he felt a very shallow but continuous breath before he slowly exhaled a breath.

It's good that his heart is safe again.

But looking at the scars all over his body and the eunuch suit mixed with blood, he couldn't stop feeling distressed.

Take out a bunch of good ointments from the cabinet to stop bleeding, heal wounds, and remove scars...... There was everything, he went to the hospital in advance, asked for the doctor, and almost emptied the medicine cabinet that the other party treasured like a treasure.

But looking at the sleeping little eunuch, he made a mistake again, should he take it off directly, or should he ask for instructions in advance and take it off again?

"Hmm......" The little man who was on the bed snorted lightly and woke up by himself, "Your Highness?" ”

He answered, feeling that the whole person had settled down, "I'm here, and the wounds on your body need to be medicated." ”

Bai Zhi nodded, sat up with the help of Xuan Se, turned around, turned his back to him, and the people of the Shen Punishment Division knew that she was the prince's henchman, so they all tried to whip her back and legs, "Please ask Your Highness to help me with medicine." ”

In the entire palace, he is the only one who knows that he is a daughter, and finding any palace maid to help her with medicine is in danger of being exposed, and only he is the most suitable.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince stretched out his hand, and his expression was almost devoid of distractions, but as the lining, undershirt, and outer garment were all peeling off, he still exhaled softly a hot breath.

The inner hall lit dozens of bronze lamps of wild goose fish, shining brightly and somewhat gloomy, but the clear light of the full moon spilled in through the window, and the light was hidden, and poured on the woman's naked and white back, and the butterfly bones delicately seemed to fly in the next second.

At this time, the whip marks were all over the place, destroying the fascinating smooth and silky, coagulable dark red bloodstains, like crumpled roses, which were burned inch by inch, and even more white and snowy, almost sucking people's eyes in.

"It's a little hot." He said so.

Bai Zhi chuckled, but pulled the wound and hissed in pain.

Xuan Se disappeared all distractions in an instant, and her slender fingertips were dipped in Lantian jade-colored ointment, and she was meticulously smeared inch by inch.

A quarter of an hour passed, Bai Zhi took Xuan Se with his eyes closed, handed over a soft and clean satin robe, surrounded herself, and slowly crossed her legs, "And here, Your Highness." ”

Xuan Se was stunned, he would definitely drug her leg, but he thought she would shyly refuse, after all, the injury was within the scope of her self-reliance, but the wound was inevitably pulled during the application process, which he could not tolerate.

"Big fool, you think I'm as conservative and old-fashioned as them?" Seeing that he was stunned, the little eunuch seemed a little angry, "You have all looked at the back, do you still care about your legs?" ”

Just for the sake of being like a little jasper, I'd rather pull the wound than force myself to take medicine? Please, she just wore it to ancient times, it doesn't mean that she really became an ancient. One day, in the middle of summer in the modern world, she will still wear shorts like the women on the street, because they are cool and convenient.

But thinking about it like this, she still felt that the old-fashioned Highness was stunned for a moment, because she felt that her behavior was very unseemly.

Without waiting for Xuan Se to answer, she snatched the ointment from his hand, and in the meantime, she pulled the wound again, but she gritted her teeth and snorted in pain.

Xuan Se pursed the corners of her mouth, and then realized that the moment just now, the other party was teasing herself, but she was misunderstood by herself, and she became aggrieved again.

I wanted to laugh, but he couldn't help it by pursing the corners of his mouth, and took back the ointment from the little eunuch's clumsy self-harm, "The big fool gave you medicine." ”

It was an apology and connivance in disguise, Bai Zhi heard it.

She looked at His Royal Highness the Crown Prince without saying a word, and leaned over without hesitation, carefully and earnestly medicating her whip-marked legs, with such careful attention to detail that even she could not do herself.

"When I find the right time, let you recover as a daughter, and I will marry you as my concubine," as if sensing the woman's gaze, he suddenly opened his mouth, "Then every moment of this life, you will be by my side, and I will not allow others to look at you more, let alone let anyone hurt you a single hair." ”

Bai Zhi didn't know that her cheeks were completely crimson when the prince's words fell, like a peach blossom in March.

She just stared straight at the hair on the head of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and there was only one one, which represented a lack of love, so she diverted her attention very clumsily, "Your Highness, there is a lack of love, right?" ”

He had been applying medicine to her smoothly, as if focusing on the elegance of a work of art, but at this time, his fingertips paused, and he thought that he was lacking love.

After raising him to the eldest mother, she calculated him with all her heart, and the most beloved and admired father used him as a pawn and used him at will, and he thought that he was a younger brother, and he did not look up to him for a day, always saying that he was a cheap breed, a substitute, and his position as a prince was to make a wedding dress for others......

He has never complained about the heavens and people since he was a child, but when he saw that the only little eunuch who was sincere to him was about to be whipped in despair because of him, lying on his bed covered in bruises, he suddenly hated everyone.

He lacks love, so once he catches love, he will not let go of his broken bones.

After the days of recuperation, the waves were not shocking, and it was also very warm, sometimes Bai Zhi watched the prince lean over and gently medicated her, and she would think that the first stage of her world's mission, to prevent Xuan Se from blackening, had been successful.

She believes that only when a person is gentle in his heart can he live in another person, and in the dark heart, he can't even see himself clearly, how can he see the others clearly and see love clearly.

Mutation in the morning of that day, when His Royal Highness came back, his eyes were full of hatred and helplessness, in the past, he always had to drink a cup of milk tea made by Bai Zhi for him - the cows from the grassland, she raised them in the stable, milked the milk every morning, boiled until it was half boiling, plus the brewed black tea, a spoonful of honey, stirred evenly, it was a very delicious milk tea, although it was not very authentic, but His Royal Highness liked it very much.

But on this day, he just hugged her tightly and asked her very seriously, "If one day, I am no longer the prince, will you continue to be by my side?" ”

Bai Zhi held his slender and beautiful fingers in his hand and played with it, "If it is, I don't know him." ”

"Hehehe......" The prince smiled lowly, only to feel that the person in his arms was full of whimsical ideas, which made people laugh cutely.

In the middle of his chuckle, she looked up and told him seriously, "Even if you are not worth mentioning, I am willing to be by your side." I like Your Highness, and I like you. ”

So, whether you are His Royal Highness the Crown Prince or an ordinary commoner, I only like you.

Xuan Se instantly understood the unfinished meaning of her words, direct and concise, never beating around the bush, and easily made him happy.

So, he hugged the joy in his arms more and more, and secretly made up his mind in his heart.

Later, Bai Zhi learned that it was because someone proposed that day abolish Prime Minister Sheng Kaizhi and replace him with Song Zhiqing, a talented and politically talented champion.

Even she knew that although Sheng Kaizhi had been in a lot of decline since the death of his only concubine, he would no longer even flatter anyone, including the emperor.

Even the Mid-Autumn Festival imperial banquet refused to participate, but he was dedicated to the people, has been in politics for many years, and his experience and latitude and longitude are beyond the reach of the young and vigorous Song Zhiqing, and he has a very high political sense.

Obviously, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Wen Taowulu knows this better than her.

But the emperor wanted to abolish Sheng Kaizhi, and felt that he was highly meritorious, and this proposal could be said to be deeply heartfelt, otherwise he would not have hesitated to ruin his son's wedding before, and he would also borrow the hand of Zhuang Yuanlang to destroy Sheng Qianyu and Sheng Kaizhi's backbone.

On the same day, the emperor rejected this performance, after all, the people's hearts are in the prime of life, and he needs to pretend.

On the second day, in the morning, Lord Shangshu once again brought the prime minister's abolition to the court, and listed countless crimes of Sheng Kaizhi, all of which were justified and well-founded.

The emperor was overjoyed, and felt that this was a good time to remove the thorns in his heart and the fish in his throat.

But the crown prince stood up from the ignorance of the courtiers, bluntly opposed the abolition of Prime Minister Sheng Kaizhi, and cited more reasonable events than Lord Shangshu to prove that Sheng Kaizhi was the indispensable first national scholar, without him, the Great Xuan Kingdom would have fallen by half.

The emperor, who sat on the throne, looked coldly at this prince whom he had set up on a whim, and wanted to abolish him on the spot, but he remembered the queen's crying request, so he secretly suppressed this breath.

shouted "retreat from the court", and he left the court with his sleeves brushed up.

Sheng Kaizhi will never be abolished, but His Royal Highness the Prince's seat may be hanging.

This was the only thought of all the courtiers present, and they glanced at the prince with pity, and then surrounded Song Zhiqing, the champion of the Yuanlang, and poured out of the Jinluan Hall together.

This young man who is in the middle of the day is a young man who almost became the prime minister, looking at the emperor's attention to him, even if he doesn't do it now, the next one must be him, Sheng Kaizhi's old stubbornness, stubbornness, no matter how flattering it is, it is better to have a good relationship with the future prime minister in advance.

Sheng Kaizhi was the penultimate person out of the Jinluan Palace, and before leaving, he patted His Royal Highness the Crown Prince on the shoulder, almost in tears, "I didn't marry you, I was not blessed." ”

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince helped him out of the Jinluan Palace, "Elder Sheng, what do you say, I haven't married Qianyu, I'm not blessed." You can rest assured that you will be your prime minister, and you will be blessed in heaven. ”

As soon as I got out of the palace gate, I found that the last rain in late autumn had fallen, and it was pouring down, and there were already many officials' wives and children who sent umbrellas, got into the carriage with their husbands, showed their waist cards and went out of the palace gate, and returned to their respective mansions.

Sheng Kaizhi's wife also sent an umbrella, and Xuan Se helped the old man up and watched the carriage go away.

The rain poured down like ink, as if the sky had been poked into a hole, the water was leaking, there was no umbrella, even if it was difficult to move an inch to the East Palace, he returned to the cloister and decided to wait for the rain to stop.

Then he found that there was another person who was also waiting for the rain to stop with him, that was Song Zhiqing, who looked extremely decent, and the feathers on his official hat were still extremely glorious.

The other party saluted him respectfully, and he couldn't find the slightest fault, and he couldn't see any resentment about the possibility of him ruining himself and becoming the prime minister immediately.

But after all, the two had political discord, and the politics and camps were opposite, except for the necessary politeness, they had nothing to say for a while, so they had to enjoy this rare heavy rain.

But in the whip-like rain line, a person walked over slowly, and the person was holding an oil-paper umbrella with begonia flowers, the umbrella surface was low, and he couldn't see his appearance.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince only looked at the umbrella and knew that it was his little Pingzi.

After he forgot that he had Nie Qingping for the rest of his life, he no longer had to wait for the rain to stop, whether it was high up, the prince of a country, or useless and uncertain, someone would give him an oil-paper umbrella with the fragrance of begonia flowers on a rainy day.

"Xiao Pingzi!" The man was about to reach the front of the cloister in a few steps, but Xuan Se couldn't help but call her name in advance, first, to let her see her position clearly, and second, to worry that her feet would slip, after all, the ground was wet and slippery.

I don't want to think about it, people have arrived safely for several miles from the East Palace to here, and they will slip and fall in these steps?

Bai Zhi put away the oil-paper umbrella, and when she went out, she didn't even bring a gelding hat because she was in a hurry to send an umbrella to Xuan Se, and her long hair splashed with ink was only tied up at will with a hairband, revealing a male and female face, heroic, but difficult to hide her beauty.

She handed another oil-paper umbrella embroidered with dark thread in her hand to His Royal Highness the Prince, who was smiling and couldn't see his eyes, and couldn't help laughing, but her mouth was disgusted, "Idiot, what else to see, take the umbrella and go home." ”

While pulling the umbrella, Xuan Se took her into the crook of his arm, and his voice was as low as magnetism in her ear, "Okay, take my daughter-in-law home." ”

Saying that, he opened the umbrella with one hand neatly, hugged him full of joy, the rest of his life, and left the begonia colored oil-paper umbrella under the corridor.

Song Zhiqing slowly crossed to the begonia colored oil-paper umbrella, knowing that this was the umbrella specially left for him by His Royal Highness the Prince, and the moment he lowered his head to take the umbrella, the face of the eunuch named "Xiao Pingzi" flashed in his mind.

It's really like it, he thought, the tear mole that sparkled in the corner of his eye was just the same as Sheng Qianyu, who grew up with his childhood sweetheart, and the tear mole under the corner of his eye was exactly the same.